as everybody knows, i can´t pass a good bargain so one of my favourite bookstores caught me again with the Julius Shulman - Modernism Rediscovered which they had on sale for €19.90. this book weighs more than 3 kilogramms for sure, the paper size is large enough for not fitting in my cupboard. it is printed on good paper and in the best TASCHEN manner.
Julius Shulman was on of the best architecture photographers of the last century. his speciality was modern residential architecture in the West of the USA. He was discoverd by the famous architect Neutra who pushed him strongly and helped him to break through. i am sure that you have already seen lots of shulmans work, just do a google image-search on julius shulman to boost your memory. IMHO shulman´s images are just adorable, i wished i had such a compelling body of work (but i am young and still alive so there is still something to expect... or just check out the photos in the architcture section on my website).
the book itself is gorgeous and the images are gorgeous too. unfortunatly there is only little about shulmans technique. i think the book is more targeted towards the architecture crowd and not towards photographers. but shulman wrote another book together with neutra that seems to adress photography: Photographing Architecture and Interiors: Updated and Expanded. but i haven´t seen this on sale yet.
Me says: this book is a good buy, i give it a rating of 4 out of 5 (for not fitting in the cupboard and for showing some weaknesses of shulman concerning the use of indoor fill flash. but hey, with the equipment of that age, his work is still remarkable).
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