Original Marked Julius Shulman DWP At Dusk Print 8 x 10

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Vintage Julius Shulman DWP At Dusk Architectural Art Silver Gelatin Print

This print was acquired at an estate sale. The quality of the image is remarkable and crisp. The print measures 8x10 and is on unmarked paper.  The obverse is stamped and carries some writing.

Julius Shulman (born October 10, 1910) is an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California modernism around the world. Through his many books, exhibits and personal appearances his work ushered in a new appreciation for the movement beginning in the 1990s. His vast library of images currently reside at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His contemporaries include Ezra Stoller and Hedrich Blessing.

Julius Shulman's images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is inconceivable. Some of his architectural photographs, like the iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright's or Pierre Koenig's remarkable structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his close friend, Richard Neutra, was first brought to light by Shulman's photography.

The clarity of his work demanded that architectural photography had to be considered as an independent art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a building's surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when the human figure is absent from the actual photographs.

Today, a great many of the buildings documented by Shulman have disappeared or been crudely converted, but the thirst for his pioneering images is stronger than ever before

The DWP building occupies an artificially constructed promontory surrounded by pools and fountains that feed the building’s cooling towers. As the iconic photography of Julius Shulman ably demonstrates, the uniformly lit floors—continuously illuminated around the clock with linear fluorescent T12 lamps— bolster the structure’s imposing monumentality. Here, natural resources are a kind of decoration. They are yet another Southern California marketing campaign, like flowers attached to floats in the Rose Parade. That tactic continues, however reversed, with the Caltrans headquarter’s advertising of conservation and energy generation, witnessed in the building-integrated solar photovoltaic array on its south side.

David Martin, FAIA, a design partner at his family’s firm, fondly remembers when in his youth his late father, A.C. Martin, Jr., FAIA, would discuss the progress of the DWP. “The attitude of the time for the DWP was of tremendous civic pride, so energy was understood not in terms of using the smallest amount, but using it in innovative ways,” Martin says. “The building’s design was meant to symbolize the use of energy.”