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Stoller image of a Miami parking structure designed by architects Robert Law Weed & Assoc. |
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Inside the Stoller Exhibition |
For more images go to http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/ezra_stol/
Beyond Architecture, with images selected from the entire
Stoller archive of more than 50,000 images, includes views of Post-War American
factories, construction sites, hydroelectric dams and printing plants. The
photographs capture a sense of a “lost America” – an America that once was, and
is no longer – including photographs of workers making televisions in Queens
and calculators in Pennsylvania, and the conveyor belts and inner-workings of
the Life Savers and Heinz ketchup factories, all photographed with the artist’s
keen Modernist sensibility and careful attention to vantage point, lighting
conditions, line, color and texture.
The exhibition covers the full range of Stoller’s work,
including images commissioned by Fortune, Architectural Forum, and House
Beautiful magazines in the 1940s and for commercial projects for IBM, Upjohn
Pharmaceuticals and CBS in the 1940s and 1950s. Included are photographs of
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s John Hancock Building, Chicago, and the United
Nations Headquarters, designed by an international team of architects led by
Wallace K. Harrison and including Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier.
Ezra Stoller is known as one of the most influential photographers
of Modern architecture. He created iconic images of mid-Century buildings that
help define the cultural memory of structures such as the Saarinen’s TWA
Terminal, Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Guggenheim Museum. Of Stoller’s work, architecture critic Paul Goldberger once
noted, “...his work has made him perhaps the most celebrated architectural
photographer of the 20th Century; his pictures...have in and of themselves
played a major role in shaping the public’s perception of what modern
architecture is about.”
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Stoller image of UN Bldg in NYC |
NY Times critic
Michael Kimmelman writing in the newspaper’s Art & Design section on Feb. 5
previewed an art gallery exhibition in Manhattan’s Chelsea district showing
work of the late Ezra Stoller (19??-2004).
Headlined “Capturing Modernism’s Chic and Sheen,” the essay notes how
“Ezra Stoller’s photographs of architecture helped fix modern design into America’s
consciousness.”
For a slideshow of Stoller’s photographs please link to:
For the NY Times article on Ezra Stoller please link to: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/arts/design/ezra-stollers-photographs-at-yossi-milo-gallery.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130206&_r=0
Images courtesy Yossi
Milo Gallery
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