Here we are back to Ronchamp, by Le Corbusier .
And here is a postcard published by the Property Company of Notre Dame du Haut.
We have already published this postcard publisher and again here what is surprising is the high quality of the document.
quality that puts the postcard on the side of the field as much as the documentary field artistic .
The framing of great beauty and great plastic formal radicalism remains the building to its very essence.
In an approach almost intimate with the wall surface, the (the?) Photographer cut by the vertical image in two as with a blade. Leaving
left the whiteness of a thick plaster straight down and right a curve to the ground, that of the platform, it installs at the bottom the only recognized architectural volume: the priest's chair for outdoor ceremonies.
All masses composed as an abstraction which finally alone in a blur on the horizon net, the little piece of landscape remains the figurative element.
But once again who decided how to determine this composition?
Because if he does here is no doubt that the shooting is a possible sequence of a walk Ronchamp, we may still wonder if the architect or look at its architecture produce this abstraction.
The photographer is standing, there is no special handling or twisting to get this incredible image. It is a form of "realism" of the encounter with Ronchamp. In other words, he shows up to look for pilgrim it is possible to meet and understanding of this architecture.
But by definition, the framework is limited and the right angles to the four corners of the postcard require choices.
How to tell someone who has not seen Ronchamp and how to allow one who has been to recognize in the process of visiting this place?
This is indeed the mission of a postcard.
Ronchamp is elusive by the image simply by what it is a factory image.
The formal complexity of her curves, the game's incredible material, sequences of spaces and solids make a work shifting that can not grasp his foot or his plan or his elevation as it is impossible to stroll on a path unknown to know in advance what is behind the rise.
And Corbusier while still offering such items necessary for restoring balance a simple geometric shape that allows meaning to recover the body and provide a place to stay.
Who dares say I saw this postcard that can be understood by the real space of the place?
One can only understand the desire of drawing and composition, admit that this place is the location of this experiment plastic exactly how difficult it is looking at the complex surface of a shell to guess the inside curves of the spiral. It
Ronchamp.
But I have also, to the multitude of images edited Ronchamp to say that the photographer of this postcard has at least not cheating. It is in this honesty the look he realized the place. He finally lands at the foot of the machine images, picks up the drawings of the architect probably surprised himself as part of his apparatus of a permanent building inventive.
We could name this a photogenic.
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