Modernism Rediscovered (First Edition)

Julius Shulman (1910–2009) is regarded as the most important architectural photographer of the twentieth century. Over his decades-long career, he built an archive that eventually reached 260,000 images and documented virtually every significant building produced by the Los Angeles modernist tradition: Neutra's houses, the Case Study Houses of Arts & Architecture magazine, John Lautner's extraordinary concrete structures, Albert Frey's desert buildings, the corporate towers of Craig Ellwood, and the private houses of clients who had access to the greatest architects of the century and chose them specifically. During his active years, between 1936 and 2009, it is likely that Shulman reached more individual viewers than any other photographer.

This set stands as one of the greatest of Taschen's publications. Benedikt Taschen himself surveyed Shulman's 260,000-strong archive over two years to find the hidden gems and shining moments of Shulman's illustrious career, and sensitively whittled the selection down to 1,008 pages split into three volumes. 

First edition, first printing. Alongside essays by Shulman, also includes essays by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Owen Edwards, Philip J. Ethington, Peter Loughrey, Wim de Wit & Benedikt Taschen. Large Folio (38 × 30 cm). All three volumes and slipcase bound in cream cloth with colour pictorial covers. Spines with colour embossed titling — each volume in a distinct colour corresponding to the volume's cover design and endpapers. 1,008 pp total. Vol. I: 1939–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1964; Vol. III: 1964–1981. Over 1,500 colour and duotone photographs throughout. Text in English, French, and German. Some foxing to cloth of slipcase and sporadically to volume covers. Internally all three volumes generally fine: clean and bright. Some minor markings to front-most pages of first volume due to pages sticking slightly.

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Catalogue Number: HH000624