Ezra Stoller 1915-2004.Ezra Stoller Ezra Stoller (16 May 1915 — 29 October 2004) was an American architectural photographer, born in Chicago. Stoller's interest in photography began while he was an architecture student at New York University when he began making lantern slides and photographs of , the great American architectural photographer, has died aged 89. Stoller's crisply elegant black and white images shaped and defined Modernism, visualizing the formal and spatial aspirations of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30,1890, Oak Park, Illinois – May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect who did most of his work in Southern California. , Paul Rudolph, Mies and Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. . Despite being a highly skilled artist in his own right, he was characteristically reticent in describing his work, 'While I cannot make a bad building good, I can draw out the strengths in a work that has strength, but I never claimed my work is art. The art is the architecture'. His legacy lives on through Esto Photographics, the architectural photo agency that he founded and which continues under the stewardship of his daughter Erica. Shown here is one of Stoller's iconic shots of the TWA TWA Time-weighted average, see there terminal by Eero Saarinen, capturing the power and romance of flight [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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