Lucien Hervé, French-Hungarian photographer, has passed away after long illness in the 97^th year of his life.

Hervé was born as László Elkán in 1910 in Hódmez?vásárhely, Hungary and was known as the most important architecture photographer of the twentieth century.
He studied economics in Vienna then moved to Paris where he met Robert Capa and Andre Kertész and made photo reports about the war for French magazines but got captured in 1940 and spent time in German captivity.
He started to paint in the early ‘40-s and his paintings were exhibited in 1942 and 1943.

In 1949 he met the architect Le Corbusier and made 650 shots in a day of a building of his that was being built in Marseille. Later he became Le Corbusier’s photographer and spent most of his time on the visual re-interpretation of the architect’s life-work. Eighteen-thousand of Hervé’s half million photographs are related to Corbusier’s works. Le Corbusier said that he had noticed such things on his buildings by Hervé’s pictures that he had not thought of before.

Hervé became the Knight of Order of Honour in 1991 for the role he played in the French Resistance during the Second World War II.

Lucien Hervé links:
Artnet
R A L P H: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

Original article in Hungarian on index.hu