Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

I have a chance to watch one of the best documented film in History of Architecture class. It is a film documented the action of Julius Shulman while he was capturing the images of architecture, name Visual Acoustics, narrator by Dustin Hoffman

The film started with and old man, Mr.Shulman, intruducing himself and talking about modern architecture. He is the world's greatest architectural photographer, who brought images of modern architecture to people which also to the American mainstream. He used his sense of feeling, eyes and composition to capture architecture and make the picture look more being a warm architecture by adding context like furniture or people into the picture. 

In this documented film, the main architecture that Shulman documented and photographed was the Case study house no.22 by Pierre Koenig. It is a modernist house in the Hollywood Hills, California, where you can see magnificent view of the city down below. The house is also considered an iconic representation of modern architecture in the 20th century. Julius Schulman documented and photographing this house in a panoramic view of the city through the floor to ceiling glass walls at night with two women sitting at a corner as he was trying to make his picture looks more than just "architecture" by adding context. 

Stahl House (Case study house no.22) by Pierre Koenig

One thing that i understand in this film is the relationship between "text and context". Architecture is just architecture when not adding context like furniture and people that live in the house like what Shulman trying to say through his photograph.