Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-twentieth century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night, reports Claudia Luther for the Los Angeles Times. He was ninety-eight.
Shulman, who had been in declining health, died at his home in Los Angeles, according to gallery owner Craig Krull, who represented him. Starting with Richard Neutra in 1936, Shulman’s roster of clients read like a who’s who of pioneering contemporary architecture: Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Harris, and many others. His work was contained in virtually every book published on Modernist architects.
Shulman’s 1960 photograph of Koenig’s Case Study House #22—a glass-walled, cantilevered structure hovering above the lights of Los Angeles—became one of the most famous architectural pictures ever taken in the US. It was, as architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in the New York Times, “one of those singular images that sum up an entire city at a moment in time.”
via: artforum news
