03


Me, Le Corbusier,
and a friend
by David Bergé



43

minutes


In 1911, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, who would later call himself Le Corbusier, sets off with his friend August Klipstein on a seven-month trip to “the Orient.”


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CREDITS ︎︎︎

Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend
240 pp, 43 min

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

advice: Ant Hampton, Karen Marta, Aemilia Papaphilippou, Liwaa Yazji
executive production: Claudia Pastori, David Bergé
executive financial management: Valerie De Visscher / Platform 0090

ARTIST INFO ︎︎︎

David Bergé (Brussels/Athens) is an artist whose works transform everyday life and objects into timeand book-based forms that are often participatory. His Walk Pieces, begun in 2008, are immersive experiences in which the audience joins the artist for a highly composed, silent, hundred-minute urban walk, during which they refrain from verbal exchange and picture-taking. More 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 the experimental publishing platform PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS. The platform currently houses two imprints, Time Based Editions (co-founded by Bergé and Ant Hampton in 2023) and kyklàda.press.
BOOK INFO ︎︎︎

The visual cargo of Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend consists of the photographs they took on this trip using a single, shared camera and glass plates—a physical effort 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.


Published in 2025 by Time Based Editions

Format: 16,7x24cm

ISBN: 9789464772678
Pages: 240
Images: 121

distribution: Time Based Editions (world) and ARTBOOK / D.A.P. (North-America)

Thanks also to Furkan Ark, Mesut Arslan, Tülay Atak, Todd Bradway, Hans Bryssinck, Federico De Matteis,  Dimitris & Anestis, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Sofia Kouloukouri, Alysée Le Druillenec, Musikarama Athens, George Papamattheakis, Iva Radivojević, Marcelo Rezende, Urok Shirhan.

Research and prototype support: Winternights, Maastricht

Continued from a project conceived with Elke Krasny (2011)

With support from KANAL Centre Pompidou, 
Platform 0090 and C-Takt, Antwerp, Neerpelt
Spring and Ammodo Foundation, Utrecht,
Flanders State of the Art and Flemish Community Commission, Brussels.

 

      

Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend (2025) is the third iteration in the Time Based Editions series, supported by KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels) and Platform 0090 (executive financial management).

Time Based Editions is an imprint of PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS