PSQF, Paris sans quitter ma fenêtre (Paris Without Leaving My Window)

PSQF, Paris sans quitter ma fenêtre (Paris Without Leaving My Window)

Lucien HervéWW-1949-M108072
1949·Gelatin silver print, printed 2000·6 11/16 × 12" (17 × 30.5 cm)

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Year
1949
Dimensions
6 11/16 × 12" (17 × 30.5 cm)

Artist

Lucien Hervé
Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé was a Hungarian-born photographer best known for his architectural documentation, particularly his long collaboration with Le Corbusier beginning in the 1950s. Working in black and white, he developed a rigorous formal language that emphasized geometric abstraction within the built environment, treating structures as sculptural compositions of light, shadow, and volume. His photographs of modernist buildings transformed how postwar architecture was visually recorded and understood. Hervé's practice extended beyond documentation to a sustained inquiry into the relationship between photographic representation and architectural form.

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Year
1949
Dimensions
6 11/16 × 12" (17 × 30.5 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1949-M108072

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Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé

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