David Berg Me, Le Corbusier, and a Friend (Paperback)

Paperback. Berge's audio-visual adventure stages a playful dialogue between Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and August Klipstein from their voyage across the South and East of EuropeThe 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-scene by artist David Berge--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.David Berge is an artist whose works transform everyday life and objects into time and book-based forms that are often participatory. Recent works have taken the form of material writing and situated publishing, such as his book Bialetti: A Catalogue (Spector Books, 2023), which proposes what a catalogue for the ubiquitous Italian design firm--unusually, one that kept no records--might look like. Berge is the founder of kyklada.press and the cofounder of Time Based Editions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…