Julius Shulman (1912-2009) American, Photograph. Original Photograph 'Kaufman House, 1947'. Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, 98/250. Gelatin Silver Print. Overall Size: 24 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. Sight Size: 17 x 20 1/2 in. #1422 . A photographer of buildings and architecture, he is credited with elevating "a commercial genre to a fine art". A meeting with architect Richard Neutra in 1936 launched his career and he worked with noted architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey and Harwell Harris, among others. Shulman was born in October of 1910 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His family moved to a farm in Connecticut and when he was ten years old, his father moved the family to Los Angeles and opened a dry goods store. Shulman attended Roosevelt High School, where he took his only known photography class. Known as "one-shot Shulman", he never used a light meter and seldom had to take more than one shot. His most famous work was a black-and-white photo taken of a glass and steel frame home built by architect Pierre Koenig in the Hollywood Hills above Laurel Canyon Boulevard as the sun was setting on May 9, 1960. It was No. 22 in John Entenza's Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study housing program. In 1995, The Getty Center bought Shulman's archive of 260,000 photos and thereafter Shulman teamed up with Juergen Nogai to build another library of photos.