The Eiffel Tower by Lucien Herve
N 48° 51.492 E 002° 17.661
31U E 448240 N 5411932
"OF THE GREAT twentieth-century photographers who have made us look afresh at the Eiffel Tower, one of modernity's most cliched images, Lucien Herve has remained..."
Waymark Code: WM6H3B
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 06/04/2009
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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.
ISBN Number: 1568983727
Author(s): Lucien Herve (Author), Barry Bergdoll (Introduction)
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