This book highlights a little known aspect of the work of Lucien Hervé: the man in the street. It appears that he is still wanted to preserve human presence even if it remains in the public eye, the photographer of Le Corbusier.
His "look structuring" took advantage of an incredible sense of bright graphics, the very man who bestowed a poetic unity to his work. He provoked real illuminations. Rene Char, too, was right: "You have to blow on some lights to make the right light. "If Hervé blew a connoisseur on architectural lights, he blew also, with modesty, the lights on people.
Lucien Herve, 90 years old, is best known for his work on buildings of Le Corbusier. He was the official photographer of the famous architect from the Radiant City (Marseille, 1949) until the death of master innovator, in 1965. Witness to the modernist architecture of its time, Lucien Hervé also worked for Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Oscar Niemeyer. Follower of geometric abstraction, love the shapes for themselves, he made a work – a rare graphic coherence – that transcends issues of architecture. Exhibition consisting of approximately 200 photographs, mostly vintage prints.
Noel Bourcier
His "look structuring" took advantage of an incredible sense of bright graphics, the very man who bestowed a poetic unity to his work. He provoked real illuminations. Rene Char, too, was right: "You have to blow on some lights to make the right light. "If Hervé blew a connoisseur on architectural lights, he blew also, with modesty, the lights on people.
Lucien Herve, 90 years old, is best known for his work on buildings of Le Corbusier. He was the official photographer of the famous architect from the Radiant City (Marseille, 1949) until the death of master innovator, in 1965. Witness to the modernist architecture of its time, Lucien Hervé also worked for Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Oscar Niemeyer. Follower of geometric abstraction, love the shapes for themselves, he made a work – a rare graphic coherence – that transcends issues of architecture. Exhibition consisting of approximately 200 photographs, mostly vintage prints.
Noel Bourcier
Graphic designer and photographer. He was artistic director at the Mission du Patrimoine photographique from 1991 to 2002 he was curator of the exhibition.
