Julius Shulman

Julius Shulman ( born October 10, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York City; † July 15, 2009 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American photographer, known in particular with architectural photographs of the post-war period and the Kennedy - era world. Besides Ezra Stoller Shulman is considered the greatest architectural photographer of the postwar era in the United States.

Life and work

Shulman's work focus was architectural photography. He worked for architects such as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig ( for example, Case Study House No. 22).

His photographs are an essential documentation of the modern architecture of the 20th century, starting in the International Style and Modernism in the United States, but also in Central and South America.

Shulman's work, mostly in medium or large format, have a high skilled craftsmanship and precision. They are characterized by a comparatively large atmospheric density, Shulman's work became famous by the skillful mapping of modernist buildings on the actual architectural scene beyond.

Exhibitions

• A selection of his works was issued in late 2005 at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
• Another, smaller exhibition took place in 2007 in the House of Architecture in Munich.
• Along with the great presentation " Richard Neutra - Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 " presented MARTa Herford a selection of his photographs from May to July 2010.
• 2011 showed Zephyr. Space for Photography of the Reiss- Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim under the title Cool and Hot the far Germany 's largest exhibition for the 100th anniversary Shulman with works on loan the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles ) and Shulman's partner Juergen Nogai.