General Information

Author/Creator

Hervé, Lucien, 1910-2007.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2003.

Physical Description

87 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

When it opened in 1889, just a few months before the Exposition Universelle for which it was commissioned, Parisians-from Dumas to de Maupassant-were appalled by the "useless and monstrous" tower Gustave Eiffel had planted in the heart of their beloved city. That enmity, however, was short-lived, and today the Eiffel Tower stands magnificently as one of our most beloved architectural landmarks, a testament to the artistry of 19th-century engineering, and the visual signature of the City of Light. The Eiffel Tower is a pictorial study of the great structure by acclaimed architectural photographer Lucienne Hervé, who began photographing the tower in his youth in the 1930s, and continued shooting it until he retired from photography in the 1990s. His ethereal images manage to convey the delicate balance between the tower's elegant ironwork and its sheer physical force. Ranging from pictorial studies of the tower in the Paris landscape to abstract compositions of iron and glass, his photographs are modern masterworks themselves. Architectural historian Barry Bergdoll, one of the preeminent scholars of 19th-century architecture, provides an introduction describing the controversial history of the tower.

Subjects

Subject

Tour Eiffel (Paris, France) > Pictorial works.

Photography, Artistic.

Paris (France) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Pictorial works.

Paris (France) > Pictorial works.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

photographs by Lucien Hervé ; introduction by Barry Bergdoll.

ISBN

1568983727

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	725/.97/0222094 HER		OSA Repository	-

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