Ezra Stoller Art

American, 1915-2004

Ezra Stoller had such a profound impact on the field of modern architectural photography that his name became a verb. Famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Marcel Breuer saw their buildings “Stollerized” — a word coined by none other than Philip Johnson, denoting expertly reimagined for the flat space of the photograph and made accessible to readers of books and magazines who could not visit them in person.

Stoller’s mostly black-and-white photographs play up the most exciting features of 20th-century landmarks: the swooping curves of Saarinen’s TWA Terminal (1962), the radical transparency of Johnson’s Glass House (1949), the monolithic gravitas of the United Nations Building (1950). As the photographer once said, “While I cannot make a bad building good, I can draw out the strengths in a work that has strength.”

Although he didn’t have an architecture degree, Stoller, who died in 2004 at age 89, very nearly joined the profession. He was enrolled in architecture school at New York University when he began taking photographs in the late 1930s. This side project soon became a full-time career, as his classmates and professors (including Edward Durell Stone) started giving him assignments.

By 1946, he was traveling around the country documenting major projects for Fortune magazine, including Wright’s Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona. This was the beginning of a long association with Wright, who later commissioned Stoller to shoot the Guggenheim Museum and the house perched above a waterfall known as Fallingwater.

Stoller had an equally symbiotic relationship with Saarinen, capturing many of the low-slung, boxy structures the Finnish architect designed for Midwestern corporate campuses, as well as his more fanciful TWA Terminal at Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport), in New York.

For someone so strongly aligned with modern architecture, Stoller acknowledged some surprising historical influences. One was the visionary 18th-century printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who, like Stoller, trained in architecture. Another was the late-19th-century photographer Eugene Atget, who documented the streets and storefronts of Paris during a major upheaval in urban planning.

“For getting a sense of space, there’s nobody like Atget,” Stoller once told an interviewer.

In addition to Stoller’s artistry, architects appreciated his meticulous multistage process. Typically, he would start with a daylong walk-through of a project, after which he formulated a detailed shooting plan — annotating images of the building with arrows and times of day and paying close attention to the weather and changing light.

Once onsite with his equipment, Stoller would rearrange the furniture to achieve the perfect shot and obsess, as he later recalled, over such questions as “at exactly what angle should the window be open.”

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Artist: Ezra Stoller

Ezra StollerMiami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami Fl., 1949

$8,500

Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami Fl.

By Ezra Stoller

Located in Miami, FL

Ezra Stroller is perhaps the world's most accomplished Architectural Photographer. In this image " Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates" ...

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1940s Modern Ezra Stoller Art

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C Print

Rainer W. Schlegelmilch'Get Your Motor Running' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition, 1966

$1,500

H 24 in W 24 in

'Get Your Motor Running' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition

By Rainer W. Schlegelmilch

Located in London, GB

Italian GP Richie Ginther waits beside his Honda RA273 as mechanics work on the engine. Image details Championship: Formula 1 1966 (Formula 1, 1966) Event: Italian GP Date taken: Sunday, September 04, 1966 Location: Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy Photographer: Rainer Schlegelmilch Rainer W. Schlegelmilch the German born widely regarded "Master of Motorsports Photography" delighted in this series of works Glamour, kitsch, sex and fast cars - this extraordinary body of work encapsulates the excitement of this era. Limited edition to 150 only - Archive stamped and numbered - with certificate of authenticity Oversize 24 x 24" inches / 61 x 61 cm paper size C type print unframed. Beautiful. About Richie Ginther & Honda BRM and Honda In 1962, Ginther switched to the British-based BRM team to race alongside Graham Hill. The highlight of his time at BRM was finishing equal-second (with Hill) in the 1963 World Championship. Ginther scored more points than his British teammate over the whole season, but only a driver's six best scores were counted towards the championship. His reputation as a solid "team player" and excellent test and development driver earned him an invitation to join the works Honda F1 team for 1965, for whom he scored his one and only GP win, at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix. The win was also Honda's first in Formula 1. Ginther averaged 151.7 kilometres per hour (94.3 mph) over the curving 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) track in the 65 lap Mexico City event. His speed eclipsed the previous course record of 150.185 km/h (93.321 mph) established by Dan Gurney in 1964. It was the first time Honda had entered the Mexican Grand Prix.[22] Honda reentered international competition in the 1966 Italian Grand Prix. The team was three years old and had encountered difficulty in the preparation of a larger engine. Ginther led in Italy before his car crashed into a retaining wall and he broke his collarbone.[23] He signed with the Eagle F1 team in 1967 and raced in the Race of Champions. At Monaco after practice, his place on the grid was given to an F2 car weighted to bring it up to minimum F1 specifications, and Ginther left F1 in disgust. Ginther won one race, achieved 14 podiums, and scored a total of 107 championship points. He appeared in an uncredited role in the 1966 film Grand Prix as John Hogarth, a driver in the Japanese funded "Yamura" team. He also acted as one of the technical racing advisors for the movie. While making an attempt to qualify for the 1967 Indy 500, Ginther broke a fuel line in his American Eagle Indy Car...

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1960s Modern Ezra Stoller Art

Materials

C Print

Slim AaronsSlim Aarons, Piazza Roma, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1962 - 16 x 20 Estate Signed C-Type

$3,812

H 16 in W 20 in

Slim Aarons, Piazza Roma, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1962 - 16 x 20 Estate Signed C-Type

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Piazza Roma, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1962 by Slim Aarons 16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Piazza Roma, Cortina d...

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20th Century American Modern Ezra Stoller Art

C Print, Digital, Color, Photographic Paper

Bernhard WübbelSiena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition, circa 1960

$750

H 20 in W 30 in

Siena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition

By Bernhard Wübbel

Located in London, GB

Siena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition 1/50 by Bernhard Wübbel Beautiful archival pigment print limited to 50 only - numbered and stamped by the gallery and with certifica...

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1960s Modern Ezra Stoller Art

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim AaronsSlim Aarons Estate Edition - Positano Beach, 1979

$6,100

H 48 in W 72 in

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Positano Beach

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Positano Beach Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979. Gorgeous print measuring a Supersize 48 x 72" inch...

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1970s Modern Ezra Stoller Art

Materials

C Print, Color

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