by Josh Stephens on Aug 27, 2011
Architectural Photography, Julius Schulman, Los Angeles County, Modernism, Vol. 26, No. 14 July 15, 2011
Julius Shulman's most famous image-in which disaffected young women in cocktail dresses float above Los Angeles-marks the end of the American experiment as well as does any other gesture in arts and letters. The steel-and-glass jewelbox embodies the equal measures of disappointment and satisfaction that come with a destination reached. After all those decades of toiling across the frontier conclude at the Pacific, the American landscape is complete, its architecture is refined to its sparest elements.
