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25.00 x 34.80 cm Hardback 296pp With 224 illustrations First published 2011 £55.00 add to basketAdd to Basket In 1949 the photographer Lucien Hervé took photographs of Unité d’Habitation, an innovative apartment building in Marseille. He sent them to the building’s architect, Le Corbusier, who immediately realised that after forty years of searching he had finally found a photographer with an ‘architect’s soul’. Their seminal collaboration is extensively documented in this album of 1200 of Hervé’s carefully edited, sequenced and labelled contact prints. Originating as a vehicle for dissemination of the architect’s work and as a commercial venture for the photographer, these contact sheets, housed at the Fondation Le Corbusier, now form an extraordinary archive of modernist architecture and photography in the mid-twentieth century.