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Me, Le Corbusier, and a Friend

by David Bergé

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The visual cargo of Me, Le Corbusier, and a Friend consists of 121 photographs, most of them never published before, taken by Le Corbusier and August Klipstein, using a single, shared camera and glass plates—a feat of physical endurance that is hard to imagine today. The plates’ imperfections create a sense of primitive authenticity, of an archaic world emerging through layers of time.
The audio component of the book is a “dialogue” between the two protagonists—a playful mise-en-scène by artist David Bergé—which imagines the two young Swiss men moving through different landscapes and discovering themselves with the tools they share: a camera and a guidebook for Westerners. The result is a speculative journey in which exploration becomes both a way of seeing and a way of discovering who they are.

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Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend
by David Bergé
240 pages, 43 mins, 16,7 x 24 cm
isbn 9789464772678
illustrations color and b/w
off set printing otabind
language: English
published by Time Based Editions, 2025

For North America, please order via DAP/Artbook.

Concept, writing, sequence: David Bergé
Photography: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret and August Klipstein
used with permission of the Fondation Le Corbusier
Book design: Roland Brauchli
Sound design: Martina Ruggeri
Voices: Sam Porritt, David Bergé
Sound engineering: Filippo Brancadoro
photo-enhancement: David Bergé
photo-retouching: Flavio Milano
cover photo: Tülay Atak
indexing: Aslı Özdoyuran
copy-editing spoken text: Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons
proofreading printed text: Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon
production: Claudia Pastori and David Bergé
executive financial management: Valerie De Visscher for Platform 0090

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