Collection by pulltab

when i think of modernism

iconic photos capturing the zeitgeist of mid-century modernism

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL, Pepsi Cola Building, New York, NY, 1960.  Photographer: Ezra Stoller.  Image via: Yossi Milo Gallery.
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL, Pepsi Cola Building, New York, NY, 1960. Photographer: Ezra Stoller. Image via: Yossi Milo Gallery.
Mies van der Rohe’s landmark Park Avenue skyscraper, the Seagram Building, was completed in 1958. Photo: Ezra Stoller/Esto.
Mies van der Rohe’s landmark Park Avenue skyscraper, the Seagram Building, was completed in 1958. Photo: Ezra Stoller/Esto.
MINORU YAMASAKI, Great Lakes Regional Headquarters for Reynolds Metals, 1955-59. Photograph by Balthazar Korab. / Architects and Artisans.
MINORU YAMASAKI, Great Lakes Regional Headquarters for Reynolds Metals, 1955-59. Photograph by Balthazar Korab. / Architects and Artisans.
ULRICH FRANZEN, Philip Morris Research Building, Richmond VA.  Photo: Ezra Stoller.
ULRICH FRANZEN, Philip Morris Research Building, Richmond VA. Photo: Ezra Stoller.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, Neue Nationalgalerie, 1968. Image © Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.  Photo: Reinhard Friedrich
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, Neue Nationalgalerie, 1968. Image © Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Photo: Reinhard Friedrich
SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL, Boots head office (the D90 West building), Beeston, Nottinghamshire, 1968.  Photographer: John Donat.  Photo: John Donat / RIBA Library Photographs Collection
SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL, Boots head office (the D90 West building), Beeston, Nottinghamshire, 1968. Photographer: John Donat. Photo: John Donat / RIBA Library Photographs Collection