Assessment Task 1A — photographs

Chris Turner
Jul 22, 2017 · 3 min read
(Julius Shulman, self-portrait, c.1935)

American architechural photographer Julius Shulman best know for dipecting modernist housing as a means of expression of mordern living. Julius would go on the help idealise the mordern california lifestyle during the postwar years. dying at the age of 98, he would be known for his best work “Case study house #22” Los Angeles 1960.

Case study house #22

The main idea behind “Case study house #22” was A domestic environment that depicts a form of living spacific to its architechure. This series of photographs was part of an architechural experiment extolling the virtues of modernist theory and industrial materials. Julius’s work would almost always be shot in black and white film, to better reduce his subjects to their geometric fundamentals.

I decide to base my series of photographs on Julius Shulman’s “Case study house #22” due to its main theme. Using the idea of A domestic Enironment that depicts a form of living spacific to its architechure I would create “ Case study: Study space”. Each photo would create an idea of the numerous study locations inside builing #1 of UTS. Each location would be effected by the architechure to the builing surrounding it. Building 1 has a brutalist nature due to its use of concrete and block-ish shape. Using the technique of black and white I was able to reduce the spaces to its geometric fundamentals. Uitising colour inside two of the pictures, was done to capture the contemporary elements of each of the spaces. This series of photographs were done to capture what a student might feel like studing inside these spaces.

Case study: Study Space (photographs by Turner, C 2017)

refrence list

  • Grundberg, A. 2009, Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist California Architecture, Dies at 98, Nytimes.com. viewed 17July 2017, <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/design/17shulman.html>.
  • Basculto, D. 2009, Julius Shulman (1910–2009), ArchDaily. viewed 17 July 2017, <http://www.archdaily.com/29457/julius-schulman-1910-2009>.
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