Ezra Stoller, Photographer

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Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller; Introduction by Andy Grundberg; With contributions by Akiko Busch and John Morris Dixon

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A long-awaited survey of the full range of Stoller's stunning photography

Ezra Stoller's iconic photographs of 20th-century architectural masterpieces, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, are often cited in aiding the rise of modernism in America. Stoller (1915–2004) elevated architectural photography to an art form, capturing the mood of numerous buildings in their best light.

Living and working in New York from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s, Stoller photographed buildings by such architects as Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, and Louis I. Kahn. His striking images earned him the admiration of critics and contemporaries, but few people are aware of the stunning breadth of his oeuvre, which also included domestic and industrial spaces and important editorial depictions of American labor in the 1950s and 1960s. Ezra Stoller, Photographer, a long-awaited and lavishly illustrated survey of Stoller's artistic accomplishments, examines the photographer's full range with a fresh eye and unprecedented scope, offering a unique commentary on postwar America's changing landscape.

Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, a curator, and a historian. Erica Stoller is director of Esto, the photographic agency founded by Ezra Stoller. Andy Grundberg is chair of the photography department and dean of the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Akiko Busch is the author of several books, including Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live. John Morris Dixon is former editor of Progressive Architecture and has written for such publications as Architect, Architectural Record, and Competitions.

“This year's best book for fans of mid-century modernism.”—John King, San Francisco Chronicle

“Highly recommended.”—Mark Lamster, Design Observer

“[A] beautifully-designed and well-written book.”—Oculus

“Show[s] a new perspective of post-war America, while also offering some of the images that helped define the cultural memory of mid-century design.”—Wallpaper

“Ezra Stoller, Photographer… gives the master the prominence he deserves.”—Michael Lassell, Modern

“Stoller was…the finest photographer of architectural modernism after WWII.”—Time

“From iconic images that capture the rise of Modernism to lesser-known prints celebrating industry and mechanization, the book brings to light the full range of work of the celebrated shutterbug.”—Architect

“Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Louis Kahn's Salk Institute, Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal—they're all gloriously reproduced in Ezra Stoller, Photographer, a thorough survey of the lensman's elevated architectural images.”—Wall Street Journal

“Ezra Stoller, Photographer is a handsome volume on the onetime industrial-design student who studied architecture with Edward Durell Stone, photographed homes for Ladies' Home Journal, and carved out a niche for himself as 'the photographer of choice for architects of curtain-walled corporate landmarks,'"—William Morgan, Architectural Record

"Stoller's photographs, like those of Atget, are evidence for historical occurences: reducing the products of architecture to mere objects, and . . . [making] them transparent, reliable, truthful witnesses to their time."--Casabella

“A handsome volume on the one-time industrial design student who studied architecture with Edward Durell Stone, photographed homes for Ladies’ Home Journal, and carved out a niche for himself as the ‘photographer of choice for architects of curtain-walled corporate landmarks,’ as critic John Morris Dixon notes in one essay.”—Architectural Record

“Ezra Stoller: Photographer is the definitive publication on history’s leading architectural photographer. Compared to the previous monograph on him, Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller, this one offers a comprehensive view of his work, expanding his facet as a photographer of architecture by throwing light on the part of him that was also an exceptional photographer of factories, machinery and industrial processes.”—Montse Zamorano, Arquitectura Viva Issue 153

Runner-up, Photography/Art category at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC.

Runner-up in the Photography/Art category at the 2013 New York Book Festival given by JM Northern Media LLC

Winner in the 2013 New York Book Show in the Special Trade, Photography category, sponsored by the Bookbinders' Guild of New York.

ISBN: 9780300172379
Publication Date: December 4, 2012

288 pages, 9 x 12
59 color + 217 b/w illus.

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