Julius Shulman Art

Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig...

Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as the Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California Mid-century modern around the world. Through his many books, exhibits and personal appearances his work ushered in a new appreciation for the movement beginning in the 1990s. His vast library of images currently resides at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His contemporaries include Ezra Stoller and Hedrich Blessing Photographers. In 1947, Julius Shulman asked architect Raphael Soriano to build a mid-century steel home and studio in the Hollywood Hills. 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 friends, Richard Neutra and Raphael Soriano, 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. Many of the buildings photographed...

A large signed architectural photograph by Julius Shulman. This is a silver gelatin and its hand signed in the back. The photograph is frame w...

This 1947 Julius Shulman (1910-2009, American) print of the Kaufmann House Palms Springs, and is hand-signed by Julius Shulman and is edition #25 of 250. This was given by Julius Sh...

Case Study House #22.Two Girls. The Stahl House 1960 considered by many to be the most iconic home of the modern movement, Case Study House #22 (The Stahl...

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...

The photographs of Julius Shulman offer one of the most compelling visual chronologies of architectural modernism. This fresh edition of Modernism Rediscovered draws on Shulman’s per...

An original black and white photograph by important American architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) of the Chemosphere in Los Angeles, one of the world's most famous Mid-Century Modern houses designed by architect John Lautner...

Large and original silver gelatin print by Julius Shulman (American, b. 1910-2009). Print is signed in white ink and dated 1938. This is a very rare and unique print from an exhibit ...

Large and original silver gelatin print by Julius Shulman (American, b.1910-2009) of the Droste house designed by R. M. Schindler in 1940. Print is signed in white ink and dated 1978...