A Constructed View: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman

Shulman, Julius; Joseph Rosa; Esther McCoy

ISBN 10: 0847817776 / ISBN 13: 9780847817771

Published by Rizzoli, New York, 2008

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SIGNED. First edition, 1994. Near Fine hardcover with a light bump to one tip in a Near Fine dust jacket with light wear at the crown and a short closed tear on the back along the spine. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. Julius Shulman (1910-2009), one of the great masters of architectural photography, is the preeminent recorder of early California modernism. The book is divided into three sections. The first is a 25 image portfolio of nudes, color work and modernist photography followed by the Rosa essay which includes 80 text illustrations, most of which are a half to a full-page. The final section is a portfolio of 139 b&w images arranged by decade, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Photographs by Julius Shulman; text by Joseph Rosa; essay by Esther McCoy. SIGNED BY SHULMAN and inscribed. 224 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs; 9 x 11.5 inches. Client list, bibliography, index. Included with this copy is a large archive of ephemera related to Shulman and his career including illustrated gallery exhibition cards and press releases, newspaper and magazine articles by and about the photographer, essays on and reviews of his work, and portfolios of his work clipped from publications; about 25 items total. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Constructed View: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman
• Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847817776
• ISBN 13: 9780847817771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

Julius Shulman, one of the great master of architectural photography, is the preeminent recoreder of early California modernism. By 1927, when he was sixteen, Shulman was already using the family Brownie box camera to document his Southern Californis surroundings and experiences; in 1936, his professional career was launched when he sent Richard Neutra some uncommissioned photographs of the architect's Kun House. Shulman went on to document the famous Case Study House Program (architects included Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, and Eero Saarinen) and also the architecure of the 1930s through the 1980s, especially that of Southern California, but also country and worldwide. His subjects included the buildings of R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, Raphael Soriano, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer, among many others. Through his work, Shulman defined the image of Los Angeles and framed the architecture of the time for a global audience. In addition to an overview of Shulman's career and photographic oevre, this book emphasizes Shulman's method of "constructing" photographic views. These contructions, which complemented his innate ability to compose striking photographs, often transcends reality to capture the spirit, time and place of a work of architecture. An analysis of architecture's visual presentation examines not only the media of the era--John Entenza's Arts & Architecture, for instance--but also the work of Shulman's photographic contemporaries.

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Julius Shulman, one of the great masters of modern architectual photography, is the pre-eminent recorder of early California modernism.