Bergé's audio-visual adventure stages a playful dialogue between Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and August Klipstein from their voyage across the South and East of Europe
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. David Bergé 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. Bergé is the founder of kyklàda.press and the cofounder of Time Based Editions.
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 121 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $25.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $35 ISBN: 9789464772678 PUBLISHER: Time Based Editions AVAILABLE: 9/9/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Bergé's audio-visual adventure stages a playful dialogue between Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and August Klipstein from their voyage across the South and East of Europe
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.
David Bergé 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. Bergé is the founder of kyklàda.press and the cofounder of Time Based Editions.
