1915年シカゴに生まれ、ニューヨーク大学で建築を専攻後、
フォトグラファーを志したエズラ・ストーラー。
その後、フランク・ロイド・ライト、ミース・ファン・デル・ローエ、
ルイス・I・カーン、I.M.ペイ、ル・コルビュジエ、丹下健三、リチャード・
マイヤーらの蒼々たるスターアーキテクト達が、自らの心血を注いだ作品の
撮影をエズラ・ストーラーに依頼しています。
1961年には第1回AIAゴールドメダルを受賞するなど
正に近代建築写真の礎を築いた存在と言えるでしょう。
彼の作品の魅力は被写体が最も美しく見える精緻な構図と
まるで建築に生命が宿っているかのように感じられる描写力。
自らも建築を愛するが故に、建築家の情熱や完成に至る迄の苦労を
ファインダー越しに垣間みる事ができたのでしょう。
数多くの人々の力を結集して、多様なエレメンツを用いながら
様々な障害を乗り越えて出来上がる建築とは、
様々な想いの集合体とも言えると思います。
エズラ・ストーラーの作品に触れると、
建築に関わった人々の万感の想いが時空を超えて
ストレートに伝わってくるような気がします・・・
General Motors Technical Center, Eero Saarinen, Warren, MI, 1950, Gelatin Silver Print
© Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, PA, 1971, Gelatin Silver Print
© Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, NY, 1959, Gelatin Silver Print
© Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Johnson Wax Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright, Racine, WI, 1950, Gelatin Silver Print
© Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, NY, 1958, Gelatin Silver Print, © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, NY, 1958, Gelatin Silver Print, © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Manufacturer’s Trust Company, Fifth Avenue, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, NY, 1954, Gelatin Silver Print, © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, NY, 1962, Gelatin Silver Print, © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, NY, 1962, Gelatin Silver Print, © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
John Hancock Center / SOM© Ezra Stoller
The Marine Midland Building Plaza with the Noguchi's sculpture "Red Cube". October 1967. © Ezra Stoller
Chicago born photographer, Ezra Stoller’s (1915–2004) gelatin silver prints include images of architectural interiors and iconic landmarks. Based on his background in architecture and industrial design, Stoller used a large-format camera to photograph monumental 20th century buildings, including the Guggenheim Museum, the TWA terminal at Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport), the Seagram Building, the Salk Institute, Yale Art and Architecture Building and Fallingwater. In addition to well-known photographs of these locations, the exhibition will include lesser-known photographs of small homes and guest houses which provide a fresh look at the masterful eye that established Stoller as the preeminent photographer of modern architecture.
A pioneer in the field of architectural photography, Ezra Stoller was commissioned by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Marcel Breuer and Richard Meier, because of his unique ability to capture the building according to the architect’s vision and to lock it into the architectural canon. His photographs convey a three-dimensional experience of architectural space through a two-dimensional medium, with careful attention to vantage point and lighting conditions, as well as to line, color, form and texture.
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