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photography<br />
2013<br />
LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer<br />
by Tim Bentonh In Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous<br />
architect’s use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s attempts to<br />
take professional photographs during his travels in central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and<br />
Italy. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually<br />
bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of them<br />
of publishable quality. In 1936 he acquired a 16mm movie camera and took 120 sequences of film and<br />
nearly 6,000 photographs with it.<br />
This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication. It reveals Le Corbusier to<br />
be a sensitive and brilliant manipulator of a wide range of photographic styles. Le Corbusier: Secret<br />
Photographer provides dramatically new insights into Le Corbusier’s visual imagination, his changing<br />
attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress.<br />
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