"Lucien Hervé, despite himself", by Gerrit Messiaen

Today we have this film about the photographer who worked for Le Corbusier, that you cannot miss. The documentary will be exhibited at the AFFR on its last day. The images are just impressing, and the documentary promise to be as good!

What Julius Shulman once was for the West Coast modernists in America, Lucien Hervé was for Le Corbusier. "You have the soul of an architect" said Le Corbusier, when viewing the 650 photographs that Lucien Hervé took in one day of his Cité Radieuse in Marseille. Hervé subsequently became Le Corbusier’s permanent photographer and, after Corbusier’s death, also for other world-famous architects. The film is an outstanding portrait of the photographer, of Paris and the spirit of the age: it is based on old photographs and footage and is related by his widow.

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Venue.- LantarenVenster. Otto Reuchlinweg 996, Rotterdam
Date.- 13th October, 12.00h.

Documentary trailer. "Lucien Hervé Photographe malgré lui", by Gerrit Messiaen.

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Chandigarh, 1955. "Lucien Hervé, despite himself", by Gerrit Messiaen.

Unité d'Habitation Marseille, 1949. "Lucien Hervé, despite himself", by Gerrit Messiaen.

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Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé.- (1910 - 2007) Of Hungarian origin, László Elkán arrived in Paris in 1929. First attracted by painting, music and fashion, he began photographing in 1938 for Marianne magazine. From 1940, after his escape from the prison camp of Hohenstein, the ranks of the Resistance and the National Movement of prisoners of war and deportees, he is known under the pseudonym of Lucien Hervé.

Close to the French humanist school after the war, his career took a decisive turn after his meeting with Le Corbusier in 1949, becoming his photographer until his death. In 1965, he collaborated with the architects Alvar Aalto and Oscar Niemeyer, and is known for his beautiful images of Chandigarh, Brasilia or Thoronet.

He also photographs the great Parisian sites, from the UNESCO headquarters to the Louvre pyramid. Among his last photographs are those of his Parisian apartment. During his sixty-year career, he has had numerous publications and exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world.

Published on: October 11, 2013

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