Hasta La Ideas

Some sad news to start off the day. It’s been announced that Julius Shulman, perhaps the most famous photographer of Modernist architecture, passed away earlier this week in his home in Los Angeles. We were just talking about his work the other day with a friend, following this recent, fantastic piece in the LA Times wherein they talked to the children who grew up in Pierre Koenig‘s Case Study No. 22 house, which Shulman had taken some staged shots of in 1960, one of which turned out to be the photo he’ll forever be remembered for. If you get a chance to read about Shulman’s life, spend some time today doing just that, because the man led an extraordinary life and had worked with nearly ever great architect in the business. Here’s to hoping the Getty, who owns the majority of his work, decides to mount another exhibition soon.