Architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at the age of 98, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a career spanning two-thirds of the 20th century, Shulman became the premier photographer of modernist architecture and worked with the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Eero Saarinen. But his most famous shot is a photo of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 in LA, which one critic called “one of those singular images that sum up an entire city at a moment in time.”
A chance 1936 visit to a Richard Neutra-designed house in LA—and the photos he took—changed his life. “I had never seen a modern house before,” he said. It “intrigued me with its strange forms—beyond any previous identity of a house in my experience.” Nothing was ever so spontaneous again, and he was accused of over-producing his photos, but he didn't mind. “I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does.” (More architecture stories.)
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