I WAS saddened to see, upon returning from a trip, that we’ve lost not only walter cronkite — who i once met at an annapolis pub he used to frequent on sailing trips — but the consummate architecture photographer julius shulman.
HERE is my interview with shulman from a few years back. i visited the man in his rambling laurel canyon home and he showed me the range of his work — the old modernist, black and white stuff from LA and palm springs, as well as some more recent color work he’d done in europe.
at 95 shulman was sharp as a nail, but also among the more prickly people i’ve met in my career. he yelled at me when i called his photography “shots.” shulman: “we’re not hunters!!”
i dont have the rights to his classic modernism shots so posting something — an image of a los angeles co fire station — that i think is in the public domain.