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2.0 out of 5 stars
Chilly work, August 3, 2009
This review is from: The Yale Art + Architecture Building (Building Block Series) (Hardcover)
I like Paul Rudolph's building. Photogrpaher Ezra Stoller seems to take his pictures according to technical criteria, and the belief that there IS a right way to take a picture of a building. In this entire book there may be two or three great photos. Everything else passes by your eyes without note. Too many similar or unremarkable shots. Maybe it's the way he sequenced the pics. He is not sharing his vision, or creating; he's documenting. His contemporary Julius Schulman instead captures things that are evocative and gets at the wordless qualities, and spatiality of the buildings he photographs, while still conveying plenty of objective info.
Compared to him, Stoller's images tend to fall on the side of mere descriptiveness.
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