Artist of the Week- Julius Shulman

  

Los Angeles California Fire Station No. 28 by Julius Shulman

                                              Shulman setting up for the now iconic shot 

Julius Shulman, Self-Portrait, c.1935

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Julius Shulman's iconic image: Designed by Pierre Koenig in 1959 for Buck Stahl as part of the Case Study Houses sponsored by Arts & Architecture Magazine, the Stahl house achieved its fame, in part, due to Shulman’s iconic image. The glass house appears to levitate over the Los Angeles skyline. Shot at f32 on his 4x5 camera, he used two flash heads for the interior and kept the shutter open for 5 minutes to expose for the city lights.

Winner of several awards including Best Documentary at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Lone Star Festival,‘Visual Acoustics – The Modernism of Julius Schulman’ is an elegant, considered and unreservedly lavish expose of the most prolific architectural photographer of our time.

       1. How is the technical quality? 
         2. How’s the composition?
         3. What do you find interesting  about his work?