Julius Shulman photography archive. 1936-1997.

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Julius Shulman photography archive. 1936-1997.

Collection contains over 260,000 negatives, vintage and modern prints, transparencies, and related printed matter documenting the modern movement in architecture in Southern California from the 1930s through 1997, including the Case Study Houses. Series II contains images of designs by well-known architects and designers, primarily modernist architects of Southern California, arranged alphabetically by architect, then by job number and format. Series III comprises photography done by Shulman for special projects: the Case Study Houses and courtyard apartment buildings in Los Angeles for the book Courtyard housing in Los Angeles. Photography arranged by job number within these two subseries. Series IV contains photography of architecture and design that does not fit into the other series, arranged by job number and format.

ca. 240 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8226990

Getty Research Institute

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Cody, William.

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Shulman, Julius, 1910-2009

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Shulman, Julius, (1910-2009), Photographer of Los Angeles, California. Throughout his long career, which began in the 1930s and ended with his death in 2009, photographer Julius Shulman created one of the most comprehensive visual chronologies of modern architecture and the development of the Los Angeles region. While he produced product and furniture photographs for designers, he is most acclaimed for his iconic images of mid-century modern buildings including the Case Study houses of Southern...

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Frey, Albert, 1903-1998

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Lee, S. Charles

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Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953

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Abell, Thornton, 1906-1984.

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Davidson, Julius Ralph, 1889-

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Art administrator. From the description of Julius Davidson interview, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220193112 From the description of Julius Davidson interview, 1964 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394245 From the description of Oral history interview with Julius Davidson, 1964 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025529 Biographical Note J. R. (Julius Ralph) D...

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Lautner, John, 1911-1994

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Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988

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Biographical Note Gregory Ain was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1908. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1911. He attended University of California, Los Angeles, and went on to study architecture at the University of Southern California from which he graduated in 1927. He worked first in the Los Angeles office of B. Marcus Pitman and later, in the early 1930s, he worked with Richard J. Neutra. From 1930 through 1935 he was an ...