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LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer by Tim Benton

Thomas Paul JUlius Wensing

This is a review of Tim Benton's LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer (2013), an immaculately researched and well-written book which covers the development of Le Corbusier’s photographic output. Le Corbusier had an ambiguous relationship with photography throughout his career; on the one hand he relied heavily on professional photography to promote his built work and support his discourse, but on the other hand he ‘maintained that photography was a stultifying activity, good only for lazy people’. In managing this image, he never allowed himself to be photographed holding a camera, while from 1916 and 1921, and again between 1936 and 1938, he literally took hundreds of photographs.

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LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer by Tim Benton

Thomas Paul JUlius Wensing

This is a review of Tim Benton's LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer (2013), an immaculately researched and well-written book which covers the development of Le Corbusier’s photographic output. Le Corbusier had an ambiguous relationship with photography throughout his career; on the one hand he relied heavily on professional photography to promote his built work and support his discourse, but on the other hand he ‘maintained that photography was a stultifying activity, good only for lazy people’. In managing this image, he never allowed himself to be photographed holding a camera, while from 1916 and 1921, and again between 1936 and 1938, he literally took hundreds of photographs.

LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer by Tim Benton

Thomas Paul JUlius Wensing

This is a review of Tim Benton's LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer (2013), an immaculately researched and well-written book which covers the development of Le Corbusier’s photographic output. Le Corbusier had an ambiguous relationship with photography throughout his career; on the one hand he relied heavily on professional photography to promote his built work and support his discourse, but on the other hand he ‘maintained that photography was a stultifying activity, good only for lazy people’. In managing this image, he never allowed himself to be photographed holding a camera, while from 1916 and 1921, and again between 1936 and 1938, he literally took hundreds of photographs.

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Title:

LC Foto Le Corbusier Secret Photographer by Tim Benton

Contributors:

Thomas Paul JUlius Wensing (author)

Published in:

Architecture Image Studies Scientific Journal, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2020)

Publication date:

2020

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48619/ais.v1i1.305

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

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Unknown

Keywords:

Le Corbusier , Photography , Benton , Architecture , NA1-9428

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