Ezra Stoller
Ezra Stoller was an architectural American architectural photographer. Stoller was born in Chicago 16 may 1915. His interest in photography began while he was an architecture student at New York University, when he began making lantern slides and photographs of architectural models, drawings and sculpture. After his graduation in 1938, he concentrated on photography. His work featured landmarks of modern architecture, including Ludwig Mies van der Roche's Seagram Building, Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling water, Alvar Aalto's Finnish Pavillion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and Eero Saarinen's last project Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. In 1961, he was the first recipient of a gold medal for photography from the american institute of architects.
Stoller photographed buildings, large and small, inside and out, with assignments that also included commercial, technical and manufacturing facilities.
Stoller photographed buildings, large and small, inside and out, with assignments that also included commercial, technical and manufacturing facilities.
In this image the walk way has a lot of lines going around. At the back of the room its all dark and the light is only in the centre.
Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman was born in Brooklyn on October 10, 1910, and grew up on a small farm in Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles while still a boy. He briefly attended the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley, and earned pocket money by selling his photographs to fellow students. In 1936 he returned to Los Angeles, where he was enlisted by a friend, working as a draftsman for Neutra, to take photographs of a new, Neutra-designed Kun Residence in Hollywood with his amateur Kodak Vest Pocket camera. When Neutra saw the pictures, he asked to meet the photographer and proceeded to give him his first assignments which assisted Shulman in launching his career in architectural photography. Shulman opened a studio in Los Angeles in 1950, by that time drawing much of his work from magazines based in New York. He remained in business full-time until the late 1980s. In 2000, Shulman gave up retirement to begin working with business partner Juergen Nogai.