Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography

Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography by Comazzi, John. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781616890414.

No one captured the midcentury modernism of the Mad Men era better than Balthazar Korab. As one of the periods most prolific and celebrated architecture photographers, Korab captured images as graceful and elegant as his subjects. His iconic photographs for master architects immortalized their finest works, while leaving his own indelible impact on twentieth century visual culture. In this riveting illustrated biography-the first dedicated solely to his life and career-author John Comazzi traces Korabs circuitous path to a career in photography. He paints a vivid picture of a young man forced to flee his native Hungary, who goes on to study architecture at the famed École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before emigrating to the United States and launching his career as Eero Saarinens on-staff photographer. The book includes a portfolio of more than one hundred images from Korabs professionally commissioned architecture photography as well as close examinations of Saarinens TWA Terminal and the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana.