Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis

Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Shulman, Julius. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780847835485.

The renowned architectural photographer shares four crucial decades worth of images of the city he loved, celebrated, and made iconic. With a life and career spanning nearly a century, Julius Shulman is credited with furthering the midcentury modernism movement through his flawless photographs of the pioneering architecture of Richard Neutra and Charles Eames, among others. While Shulmans pictures comprise the most published images of the modernist movement, this new monograph presents many never-before-seen images on a subject closest to Shulmans heart: Los Angeles and its environs--including Palm Springs and other suburbs. These affecting photographs show Los Angeles as a living organism, simultaneously vibrant and volatile depending on the neighborhood. This tension is apparent in Shulmans documentation of then-emerging areas like Century City, Wilshire Boulevard, and Echo Park, as well as his studies of landmarks like the Watts Towers and Graumans Chinese Theatre. Many of the