In keeping with arts·meme’s devotion to the dearly departed, we’d like to add Uncle Julius to the mix.
The great Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-reared architectural photographer left our midst last year. By most measures, his was a life well lived (1910-2009).
He left behind the visual splendor of his timeless photography, which captures and defines California modernism.
Then there are memories of Julius. Because they don’t make them like that anymore. His charming egocentricity confounded many an interlocutor. But, in this brief snippet, the master calmly describes his craft.
The MAK Center is organizing an architecture tour featuring six modernist residences recorded by Shulman.
Both interiors and exteriors of homes by R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, Raphael Soriano and Carl Louis Maston are featured. The tour includes Shulman’s longtime residence.
Tour sites span the Hollywood Hills and include:
- Lovell Health House (1929), Richard Neutra
- Kun House (1936), Richard Neutra
- Gold House (1945), R.M. Schindler
- Hillside House (1948), Carl Louis Maston
- Shulman House (1950), Raphael Soriano
- Gantert House (1981), Pierre Koenig
MAK Center’s Julius Shulman 100th birthday architectural tour | Sunday Oct 10 | info
shulman portrait: Dan Winter/ LAMag.com
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Hello,
Taschen published a wondeful book of Shulman’s pictures (a low price as usual):
“Julius Shulman – Modernism Rediscovered”
Text by Pierluigi Serraino
A great book on architecture & photo
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/05049/facts.julius_shulman_modernism_rediscovered.htm
See You
RC
That is a very nice memory, David. Yours, Debra L.
Debra is too modest to cite the fact that, a few summers ago, she was one of the docents for tours of Uncle Julius’ house. She was also kind enough to give me — and my wife — a ride to the house so that I could also act as a docent.