This week I was looking at movie reviews and I came across a movie titled " Visual Acoustics The Modernism of Julius Shulman." After doing a little research on this I found that he was a celebrated architecture photographer. I feel like I should have know him before because of my brief attempt of shooting architecture. He had a different outlook on shooting building and making them interesting. Some of the images are taken at night making for very beautiful lighting. The compositions are also quite different. They are not you plain, boring, straight on shots of buildings and houses. The example with the stepping stones is what I am referring to. Normally that would be a bother in an image but instead he turns it to make it the focus, or at least the part that leads you into the entire image. He makes the lines and the curves of the homes and buildings work in his advantage. In one of the examples I'm going to put up, the lines help to lead you around the image. He took photographs of many famous architects work, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Pierre Koenig.
A classic. Good choice and description. He had an uncanny ability to capture a sense of space. To be inside and outside simultaneously. In many ways architects rely on the sensitivities of the photographer to fully realize the "image" of their buildings.
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