ARCHITECTURE AND ITS PHOTOGRAPHY
Julius Shulman, Frank Gehry [preface], Peter Gossel [Editor]
Julius Shulman, Frank Gehry [preface], Peter Gossel [Editor]: ARCHITECTURE AND ITS PHOTOGRAPHY. Koln: Taschen, 1998. First edition. Text in English. Quarto. Printed paper covered boards. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 300 pp. Fully illustrtaed in color and black and white. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A well-preserved copy: a nearly fine hardcover book in a nearly fine dust jacket. Unsigned, thus rare.
9.5 x 12.75 hardcover book with 300 pages and more than 300 color and black and white photographs by the man who is now widely considered to be the greatest architectural photographer of all time.
Includes photography of buildings by Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Ralph Davidson, Gregory Ain, John Lautner, Albert Frey, Craig Ellwood, Frederick Emmons, Edward Durrell Stone and many others.
- Architecture And Its Photography
- Public Relations For Architects
- Induced Perspectives
- A Reservoir Of Photographs
- The Retirement Years
American photographer Julius Shulman's (1910 – 2009) images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is inconceivable. Some of his architectural photographs, like the iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright's or Pierre Koenig's remarkable structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his close friend, Richard Neutra, was first brought to light by Shulman's photography.
The clarity of his work demanded that architectural photography had to be considered as an independent art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a building's surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when the human figure is absent from the actual photographs.
Today, a great many of the buildings documented by Shulman have disappeared or been crudely converted, but the thirst for his pioneering images is stronger than ever before. This is a vivid journey across six decades of great architecture and classic photography through the famously incomparable eyes of Julius Shulman.
“Some of his architectural photographs, like the iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright's or Pierre Koenig's remarkable structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his close friends, Richard Neutra and Raphael Soriano, was first brought to light by Shulman's photography. The clarity of his work demanded that architectural photography had to be considered as an independent art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a building's surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when the human figure is absent from the actual photographs.” [Wikipedia]