(con't)   Under Neutra's guidance, Shulman took to this new vocation with a focused and refined sense of perspective and purpose. Using a view camera to produce 4x5 negatives, he soon began photographinig for other important Los Angeles architects, including R.M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Frank Lloyd Wright and later Pierre Koenig, who used him exclusively. Shulman's now iconic photograph of Case Study House No. 22 (1960), depicting two young women perched within a glass box above Sunset Boulevard, has become the most famous photograph of architecture in the world. Not only does it capture the formidable lights of Los Angeles at night, but also encapsulates the early 1960s while revealing the genius of this glass and steel structure. Mostly a self-taught artist, Shulman continued to pursue photography while auditing classes at UCLA and Berkeley. In fact, he sold many of his photographs while at Berkeley. However, it was his love of nature that inspired him. Many of his straight-forward photographs play with nature and the built environment, such as the photograph of the Department of Water and Power Building in downtown Los Angeles. A natural space in the foreground of the photograph changes into the constructed form of the actual building. This down-to-earth approach has served Shulman well in shaping the way the world thinks about photography.   << Previous | Next >>

 

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