Rene Burri - Le Corbusier (WITH DUSTJACKET, SUPER FRESH COPY) - 1999

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GREAT, SOUGHT-AFTER BOOK by the famous Magnum photographer René Burri -
about the legendary architect Le Corbusier.

With the original dustjacket.
EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH AND FLAWLESS CONDITION.

"René Burri`s photographs have written history: his work is a mirror of politics and society, of turning points, triumphs and crises over the course of half a century. Whether it was the fifteen-year-old Burri`s portrait of Winston Churchill or his later portrayals of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Anwar as-Sadat or Muammar al-Gaddafi, all have traveled the world and lodged themselves in the collective consciousness. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are Burri`s images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty and calamity. And as if to hold such horrors in check, Burri has turned his lens with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty and creativity: to the landscapes of Latin America, to great artists such as Picasso and Maria Callas, and to luminaries of architecture such as Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer."
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Birkhäuser Publishers. 1999. Berlin. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 295 x 235 mm. 181 pages. Photos: René Burri. Edited and with texts by Arthur Rüegg. Text in English.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket excellent, like new and unread; super fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Marginal trace of use; no remarkable flaws or defects. Lacks the booklet (with translation of the text into French and German). Overall very fine condition.

Life and work of the famous French architect in a beautiful coffee-table book - with original dustjacket.
René Burri's book "Die Deutschen" ("The Germans") was selected as one of the best books ever published (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol 1, page 218).