Julius Shulman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in
1910. However, his formative years were spent on a farm in Connecticut,
where he developed an appreciation and understanding of the nature
of light. Finally moving to California,his sense of space and volume
steadily grew.
At an early age he already had an interest in photography, but
it was not unitl Richard Neutra became interested in some of his
snapshots that a great career began. These photographs were of
Neutra's kun House in Hollywood, and this chance glance served
to produce one of the world's great artists of architectural photography.
Shulman's now iconic photograph of Case Study House No. 22 (1960),
depicting two young women perched within a glass box above Sunset
Boulevard, has become the most famous photograph of architecture
in the world. Not only does it capture the formidable lights of
Los Angeles at night, but also encapsulates the early 1960s while
revealing the genius of this glass and steel structure.
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