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Title: Lucien Herve: White Spain & Black Spain
Author: BERGERA INAKI (ED)
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2019
Imprint: TURNER, MADRID
Price: $70.00
Publishing status: Active
Lucien Herve (1910-2007) was one of the great architectural photographers of the 20th century.
His methodological and conceptual patterns were reflected in his work, which includes a long
collaboration with Le Corbusier.
In 1958 he launched the project for a photobook on the monastery of El Escorial commissioned
by the RM publishing house in Barcelona, and a year later, during a trip around Spain, a second
commission on popular Mediterranean architecture arose. Although they remained unpublished,
both works were the object of constant revision by the photographer throughout his life.
Sixty years later, both photobooks are published, preceded by specialised texts by architects
Javier Mosteiro and Marco Iuliano. The publication is completed by a volume in which Inaki
Bergera and art historian Horacio Fernandez offer us an overview of the artist’s life and
investigate the relationship between these two projects.
Lucien Herve (Hungary, 1910-2007) was a photographer. His photographs transcend the visual to
give rise to profound conceptual reflections, and his work is imbued with a firmly rooted critical
humanism. In 1958, Herve received a commission from RM, a publishing house in Barcelona, for
a photobook on the monastery of El Escorial. During a trip to Spain in 1959, this first project was
extended to a second commission to photograph Mediterranean popular architecture. For various
reasons, neither book was ever published until now. However, both projects were constantly
revised by the photographer throughout his life.
Text in English and Spanish.
171 colour, 50 b/w images 3 paperbacks, slipcase
ISBN: 9788417866013
Dimension: 210mm X 210mm