{"id":244643,"date":"2017-10-03T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=244643"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:57:41","slug":"mid-century-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/mid-century-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Mid-Century Photographers Who Captured Modernist Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_251713\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/julius-shulman-case-study-house-22-pool-los-angeles-california\/id-a_137472\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251713\" class=\"wp-image-251713 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/case_study_house_22_pool_l.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/case_study_house_22_pool_l.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/case_study_house_22_pool_l-425x350.jpeg 425w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/case_study_house_22_pool_l-120x99.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/julius-shulman-case-study-house-22-pool-los-angeles-california\/id-a_137472\/\"><em>Case Study House #22 (pool), Los Angeles California<\/em>, 1960, by Julius Shulman. Offered by Yancey Richardson Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/mid-century-modern\/\">mid-century modern<\/a> period of architecture and design, which ran roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/mid-century-modernisms-first-comeback\/\">from the 1930s to the 1960s<\/a>, gave us such iconic architects as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/eero-saarinen\/\">Eero Saarinen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe\/\">Mies van der Rohe<\/a>. However, our understanding of these buildings is informed through the photographers who chronicled their designs \u2014 adding perspective, context and sometimes a little drama. Although we can still visit many of these buildings today, the following mid-century photographers allowed us to see the work of acclaimed architects as they saw it themselves.<\/p>\n<h2>Ben Schnall<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251553\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251553\" class=\"wp-image-251553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2.jpg 1495w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2-436x350.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2-950x763.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2-120x96.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-marcel2-1162x933.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Lawrence Art Center by Marcel Breuer, 1952. Photo courtesy of Daisy Alioto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ben Schnall was among a generation of <em>Life<\/em> magazine photographers famous for contributing to the documented memory of 20th-century America. Of particular interest to architecture enthusiasts, were his pictures of works by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/marcel-breuer\/\">Marcel Breuer<\/a> and the Connecticut glass house of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/abstract-expressionist\/\">Abstract Expressionist<\/a> painter Arshile Gorky, which may or may not be haunted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/26\/nyregion\/ghost-stories.html\">according to <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Julius Shulman<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251563\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251563\" class=\"wp-image-251563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schulman_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schulman_l.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schulman_l-275x350.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schulman_l-94x120.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/julius-shulman-case-study-house-22-los-angeles\/id-a_1388483\/\"><em>Case Study House #22, Los Angeles<\/em>, 1960. Offered by Kopeikin Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/julius-shulman\/\">Julius Shulman\u2019s photographs<\/a> have defined West Coast modernism, he was actually born in Brooklyn. He famously photographed 18 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/case-study-houses\/\">the 26 Case Study houses<\/a>, which showcased mid-century modern architects like Pierre Koenig and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/charles-and-ray-eames\/\">Charles and Ray Eames<\/a>. He even ended up with his own linear steel and glass home, built by Raphael Soriano and appropriately known as Shulman House.<\/p>\n<h2>Leland Y. Lee<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251583\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251583\" class=\"wp-image-251583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeeLY_Moutain_Habitat_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeeLY_Moutain_Habitat_l.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeeLY_Moutain_Habitat_l-447x350.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeeLY_Moutain_Habitat_l-120x94.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/leland-y-lee-mountain-habitat\/id-a_1524663\/\"><em>Mountain Habitat<\/em>, 1968. Offered by Coda<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/leland-y-lee\/\">Leland Y. Lee<\/a> worked as an assistant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/julius-shulman\/\">Julius Shulman<\/a> before taking his own commissions for leading shelter magazines like <em>Architectural Diges<\/em>t and <em>House &amp; Garden<\/em>. As the blog Jetset Modernist notes, Lee\u2019s success came at a time of widespread racial bias toward Asian-Americans. He is remembered for his work in Palm Springs and Los Angeles, and can even be seen in some of Shulman\u2019s famous shots.<\/p>\n<h2>Ezra Stoller<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251503\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251503\" class=\"wp-image-251503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004-459x350.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004-950x724.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004-120x92.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/ManufacturersTrustCompanyFifthAvenueSkidmoreOwingsMerrillNewYorkNY1954004-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/ezra-stoller-manufacturers-trust-company-fifth-avenue-skidmore-owings-merrill-new-york\/id-a_43661\/\"><em>Manufacturer&#8217;s Trust Company, Fifth Avenue, Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, New York<\/em>, 1954. Offered by Yossi Milo Gallery<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/ezra-stoller\/\">Ezra Stoller<\/a> chronicled iconic New York buildings like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/ezra-stoller-seagram-building-mies-van-der-rohe-philip-johnson-new-york-ny\/id-a_1873243\/\">Mies van der Rohe\u2019s Seagram Building<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/image-building-how-photography-transforms-architecture-at-the-parrish-art-museum\/\">soaring silhouette<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/eero-saarinen\/furniture\/\">Eero Saarinen<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/ezra-stoller-twa-terminal-at-idlewild-now-jfk-airport-eero-saarinen-new-york-ny\/id-a_43667\/\">TWA Terminal at Idlewild Airport<\/a> (now John F. Kennedy Airport) in New York. His focus ranged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/ezra-stoller\/\">from minute detail to grand abstraction<\/a>. \u201cMy photos tend to be confusing,\u201d he once said. \u201cI show a great many vistas.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>George Cserna<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251593\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251593\" class=\"wp-image-251593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45.jpg 1498w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45-444x350.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45-950x750.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45-120x95.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/cserna45-1182x933.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I.M. Pei\u2019s library at SUNY Fredonia, 1968. Photo courtesy of Daisy Alioto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>George Cserna was a Hungarian photographer who migrated to New York in the 1950s. He photographed works by I.M. Pei (including the now demolished Terminal 6 at J.F.K. Airport) and Philadelphia buildings like a lab by hometown hero Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. Fun fact: Cserna also photographed W.H. Auden and William Faulkner for their book jackets.<\/p>\n<h2>Hedrich-Blessing<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251673\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251673\" class=\"wp-image-251673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXX_IBM3_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXX_IBM3_3.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXX_IBM3_3-268x350.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXX_IBM3_3-92x120.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/wall-decorations\/photography\/photograph-ibm-building-seattle-hedrich-blessing\/id-f_796092\/\"><em>IBM Building Seattle<\/em>, 1964. Offered by Pierson<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>What Julius Shulman was to Los Angeles, Hedrich-Blessing was to Chicago. The firm, which is still in existence, was established by Ken Hedrich and Henry Blessing in 1929. They captured such Windy City icons as the Palmolive Building and the skyline along Lake Shore Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Hedrich\u2019s three brothers eventually joined the firm, and Jack Hedrich \u2014 the youngest \u2014 told <em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em>, \u201c[The firm was] really the first ones to change architectural photography from reporting images to artistic images.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Balthazar Korab<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251683\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251683\" class=\"wp-image-251683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/centuryplaza_org_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/centuryplaza_org_2.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/centuryplaza_org_2-449x350.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/centuryplaza_org_2-120x94.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/wall-decorations\/photography\/century-plaza-hotel-photograph-balthazar-korab\/id-f_3326542\/\"><em>Century Plaza Hotel<\/em>, 1960s. Offered by Pierson<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like Cserna, Balthazar Korab was born in Budapest, but ended up in Detroit as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/eero-saarinen\/furniture\/\">Saarinen<\/a> was fulfilling some of his most famous Midwestern commissions like the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, and the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitra.com\/en-us\/magazine\/details\/a-pit-for-conversation\">its famous plush conversation pits<\/a>. As the <em>New York Times<\/em> notes, Korab avoided the popular style of high-contrast building portraiture, instead opting to sometimes include an errant pedestrian or flowering tree.<\/p>\n<h2>Pedro E. Guerrero<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251633\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251633\" class=\"wp-image-251633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028.jpg\" alt=\"The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, (Phillip Johnson, Architect), 1984. \u00a9 Pedro E. Guerrero, courtesy Edward Cella Art+Architecture\" width=\"680\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028.jpg 1950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-448x350.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-950x741.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-120x94.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-1536x1199.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copy-of-PGUE028-1195x933.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, (Phillip Johnson, Architect)<\/em>, 1984. \u00a9 Pedro E. Guerrero, courtesy Edward Cella Art+Architecture<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pedro E. Guerrero did not have an easy childhood as a Mexican-American boy in Arizona. When he dropped out of art school, his photography career could have easily ended there, instead he met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/frank-lloyd-wright\/\">Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a> as the architect began working <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/frank-lloyd-wright-at-150\/\">on his winter home<\/a>, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Despite Wright\u2019s difficult personality, Guerrero became like a son to him and gained unique access to some of his most famous projects before settling in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he photographed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/philip-johnson\/\">Philip Johnson<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/glass-house\/\">Glass House<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-05T17:16:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"4844c983-dcd5-4dc8-9cb3-86f3e80034ce","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-05T17:47:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASETJg9zVTcics4bz6AA0zg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[992,260],"tags":[15534503,15534633,15534483,10353223,15527323,15534473,15168563,12415723,358083,15532163,15534563,232,15534593,15534643,15534623,11220323,15534603,15534553,15534463,15534543,15534493,96,15534613,14489293,15532153,6,194,7693,12186263,6963,8023,10353253,104,15534533,15534573,15534523,15534583,15534513],"dibs-categories":[],"dibs-designs":[],"dibs-styles":[],"dibs-creators":[],"dibs-sellers":[],"class_list":["post-244643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-fine-art","tag-arshile-gorky","tag-balthazar-korab","tag-ben-schnall","tag-black-and-white-photography","tag-building","tag-case-study-house","tag-charles-and-ray-eames","tag-daisy-alioto","tag-eero-saarinen","tag-exterior","tag-ezra-stoller","tag-frank-lloyd-wright","tag-george-cserna","tag-glass-house","tag-hedrich-blessing","tag-house","tag-i-m-pei","tag-jetset-modernist","tag-julius-shulman","tag-leland-y-lee","tag-life-magazine-photographer","tag-los-angeles","tag-louis-kahn","tag-marcel-breuer","tag-mid-ce","tag-mid-century","tag-mid-century-modern","tag-mies-van-der-rohe","tag-modernist","tag-palm-springs","tag-philip-johnson","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-pierre-koenig","tag-seagram-building","tag-shulman-house","tag-twa-terminal","tag-west-coast-modernism"],"acf":{"post_format":"article","subtitle":"All the sleek lines and smooth surfaces of mid-century architecture were begging to be photographed. 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