Marcel Gautherot

Marcel Gautherot is regarded by many as one of the most significant French photographers. Yet he is not as well known, and even less published, as some of his contemporaries. The most famous part of his work is the documentation of the construction of the Brazilian capital Brasilia 1958-1960, consisting of around 3,000 images, and also later images he took of this extraordinary place until the 1970s, widely appreciated as a high point of 20th-century architectural photography. Gautherot was born in Paris in 1910. In 1925, when he already was an architect''s apprentice, he enrolled in an evening class in architecture at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs. He continued his education in architecture and interior design at college and working for various firms, with a keen interest in the Esprit Nouveau and Bauhaus movements and their respective proponents such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In the early 1930, he abandoned his studies in architecture to follow his interest in