Julius Shulman

Shulman, Skinner, Skinner House, Beverly Hills, CA, Black & White Photography

American photographer Julius Shulman’s 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...

American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is...

American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is...

American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is...

American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is...

American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is...

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Ormond Gigli Gelatin Silver Print Printed by artist 17.75" x 20.5" Unique: $4725 Provenance: Printed by the artist, from the artist's studio Signature: Signed en verso ORMOND GIGLI Born New York City, 1925 Ormond Gigli became famous early on during the 1950s for his photographs of theatre, celebrities, dance, exotic persons & places. His work appeared prominently on covers & editorial pages of LIFE, TIME, PARIS MATCH, SATURDAY EVENING POST, COLLIERS, and other major international publications. Gigli's groundbreaking portraits include Sophia Loren (at age 21), Anita Ekberg, Marcel Duchamp, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Gina Lollobrigida, Diana Vreeland, Giancarlo Giannini...

Palm trees slowly moving in the breeze. Abstract black and white landscape photograph of palm trees, printed by hand in a traditional darkroom on fiber based gelatin silver paper. Si...

Palm trees at night in Barcelona. Photographed on 35mm film, processed using the solarization method, inverting the image while printing. Printed on Ilford m...

A magical and mysterious black and white landscape photograph taken in the Armenian highlands. In the distance, where the mist and mountains are you see rainfall. Photographed with a medium format Hasselblad camera and a red filter to darken the sky. A limited edition of five prints sized at 25x25 inches, printed by hand in a traditional darkroom on gelatin silver paper. There are only two left in the edition at this size. Framed with wide, antique black stained...

Kurt Markus, Dunes, Namibia, Africa, 2002. gelatin silver print Signed print recto.