Artist Bios
John Bennette
Former discovery editor of 21st a Journal of Contemporary Photography,
freelance writer, curator, and passionate advocate for collecting and “discoverer” of
exciting new voices in contemporary photo-based art.
Charlotte Cotton
Curator and Department Head of Photographs at Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary
photography including, 'Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary
fashion photographs' (2000), 'Out of Japan' (2002), 'Stepping In and
Out: contemporary documentary photography' (2003) and 'Guy Bourdin'
(2003).
Wim DeWit
Head of Special Collections & Visual Resources and Curator of Architectural
Collections, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. He has organized
a number of exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute, including “Julius
Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis” (fall 2005) and the current
exhibition at the Los Angeles Public Library, “Julius Shulman’s
Los Angeles.”
Julius Shulman
Born in 1910, he and his family moved to California from a small farm
in Connecticut at the age of 10. His career as an architectural photographer
began in 1936 when he showed Richard Neutra some photographs he had
made of Neutra's Kun Residence in Los Angeles. Ultimately, Shulman
photographed 90% of Richard Neutra's work and was introduced to other
modernist architects working in Southern California. His extraordinary
client list eventually included; Charles and Ray Eames, Raphael Soriano,
Eero Saarinen, John Lautner, Pierre Koenig, Rudolf Schindler, Frank
Lloyd Wright and hundreds of others. Shulman did not merely document
significant architecture, but interpreted it, becoming one of the most
important and influential architectural photographers in history.
Dale Stulz
Over the past fourteen years, he has been an independent consultant,
appraiser and auctioneer in the field. He has taught and lectured on
collecting photographs at the Friends of Photography, Hofstra University,
the Photographic Historical Society of New York, and the School of
Visual Arts, New York. In this country and abroad, his clients include
private and institutional collections, archives and corporate groups.
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