1910 — 2007
Lucien Hervé was a Hungarian photographer synonymous for his work with architecture, and in particular for his storied collaborations with Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect and urban planner who pioneered modern architecture. Hervé's architecture photography played with light and shadow, angles and framing, geometry and abstraction — and as a photojournalist working India or South America, a clear humanist element, and curiosity or empathy for his subjects, is evident in his work.
Hervé would go on to join the board of the architectural journal Carré Bleu, before a diagnosis with multiple sclerosis limited his ability to move as freely. His son, the photographer and artist Daniel Rodolf Hervé, began to accompany him on work trips, and he turned his attention to works on urban planning in Belgium and Vienna. Daniel Rodolf died in 2000; Hervé followed seven years later, after establishing his own photographic prize, the Prix Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé, in his son's honour. He continues to be exhibited across Europe and as far afield as Tokyo, and has been the subject of several documentary films.
