Collection by Luke Hopping
Bask in the Retro Glow of Photos from Postwar SoCal (and Beyond)
Architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) took photos of midcentury California pads that became as famous as the buildings themselves, including homes by John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright. The work he captured during his seven-decade career is definitive, and, for newcomers, dense. “Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered,” Taschen’s hefty three-volume chronicle of Shulman’s photos from Southern California and beyond, will be reissued in the U.S. on September 30 with the same amount of glossies, but at a slightly more wieldy scale : 9.8-by-12.4 inches.
All photos by Julius Shulman, courtesy of the Getty Research Institute.
Spring Hotel, Bequia by Crites & McConnell, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1967)
Greenberg Residence by Buff & Lensman, Palos Verdes, California (1966)
Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago, Illinois (1963)
North Shore Yacht Club by Frey & Cahmbers, Salton Sea, California (1960)
British Overseas Airline Company by Risley & Gould, Beverly Hills, California (1961).
Woods Residence (“The Dome House”) by Soleri & Mills, Cave Creek, Arizona (1950)
Residence by William Alexander, Los Angeles California (1952)
Goeritz Residence by Mathias Goeritz and Ricard Logeorreta, Cuernavaca, Mexico (1973)
Roberts Residence by Weston, Byles & Rudolph Malibu, California (1953)
“Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered” chronicles more than 400 architectural masterstrokes captured by the late photographer Julius Shulman. The focal point is Southern California, Shulman’s home, but the three-volume book also features work from the rest of the U.S., Mexico, Israel, and Hong Kong.