Visual Acoustics: 3 Days Left at Cinema Village
by brooklynmodern | October 20th, 2009
If you’re into modern design, a documentary about one of the most important architectural photographers, Julius Shulman, is playing at Cinema Village. (Click link to buy tickets). Shulman, who recently passed away, shot some of the most iconic houses in Los Angeles. Below is the trailer and a memoriam by Dwell’s Aaron Britt:
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In Memoriam: Julius Shulman
We here at the Dwell offices were all saddened to learn that architectural photographer Julius Shulman passed away last night at the age of 98. His photography helped define mid-century modernism and no one can claim more credit for documenting, and in some ways inventing, what post-war California cool looked and felt like.
We’ve long admired Shulman as a peerless artist and advocate for the values of modern design, and given that a number of the buildings he photographed have since been altered or knocked down, his record as perhaps the greatest chronicler of American modernism is without match.
The LA Times has posted a nice slideshow of Shulman and his work, and if you’re in the listening mood, go to NPR.org to hear Alex Chadwick’s 2005 interview with Shulman (a voice worth hearing), recorded in his Raphael Soriano–designed home in Los Angeles (which we visited in October 2007). We also caught up with Shulman for our Design Leader video series, which you can watch here. Also keep an eye out for an opportunity to see the new documentary Visual Acoustics, which we recently screened at Dwell on Design (and read Dwell’s interview with director Eric Bricker here).
