Julius Shulman's Los Angeles
by Christopher James Alexander
Shulman’s best-known images consist of mid-century views of Modernist
domestic interiors, notably the iconic Case Study House #22 of 1960, in
which two well-dressed women sit inside the floor-to-ceiling window
walls of a Pierre Koenig–designed house that seems to float like a
spaceship over the light-spangled urban sprawl beyond. Not as well known
but equally powerful are Shulman’s images of Union Station and
downtown’s vintage office buildings, the dynamic Wilshire Boulevard
corridor, the region’s eclectic coffee shops and movie theaters, the
sweeping canopy of the Century Plaza Hotel, the diverse fabric of L.A.’s
residential neighborhoods, and the panoramic vistas of the city of the
future under construction.
Code: 92253
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