Posts Tagged ‘photographer’
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
A small selection of architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke. Trained as an architect at Carleton University, Jahnke also has a BFA in photography from Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She’s taken some of the best shots of the Eames House I’ve seen.
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Tags: architect, Case Study House, Eames House, hot pink, Instant Coffee, Ken Lum, Krista Jahnke, Livingspace, Merrick House, mural, museum of anthropology, Omer Arbel, photographer, Planetarium, Van East sign, Vancouver
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Built on faith in lava not striking twice. Via Kateopolis via Michael Wells, photographer, “Scorched Earth.”
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Tags: black, black and white, blasted landscape, deck, house, Kateopolis, lava, Michael Wells, minimalist, modernist, photographer, rock, tempting fate, volcanic, White house
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Selwyn Pullan is Vancouver’s most prolific architectural photographer of midcentury modern houses and buildings. He’s 86 now, and recently a collection of his photographs has been shown at the West Vancouver Museum (which make sense, since so much of Vancouver’s modern housing is located in that municipality across the harbour), and at the Charles H.
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Tags: architecture, architetural, building, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Frederic Wood Theatre, geography, Hollingsworth, house, Julius Shulman, location, Ned Pratt, photographer, photography, Porter Residence, Positioning The New, Selwyn Pullan, Thompson Berwick & Pratt, West Vancouver Museum
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Julius Shulman, the prominent architectural photographer who helped introduce North America to modern architecture, died yesterday at age 98. Shulman had never retired. Working solidly almost up until months before his death, he produced a remarkably complete photographic archive of modern American interiors and exteriors spanning more than a 50-year period.
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Tags: Albert Frey, architecture, Chemosphere, Desert Modern, Eames House, Frey Residence, Julius Shulman, Lautens, modern, modernism, modernist, obituary, photographer, RIP
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
From the 1975 edition of Inside Today’s Home. “A vividly colored, streamlined kitchen forms one wall of the major group space in this minimal-care beach house. The brilliant blue and red scheme contrasts strikingly with the clean-lined Breuer and Mies van der Rohe furniture and a soft goat hair rug.
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Tags: 60s, 70s, architect, blue, Breuer, chair, colour block, concrete, flokati, John Fowler, kitchen, lounge, Mies van der Rohe, minimalist, mod, Norman McGrath, photographer, red, why are things so boring now?, wood, wooden
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
One last Vancouver house by Arthur Erickson. The house was built for and is still owned by the painterGordon Smith and his partner Marion. They have carefully maintained it over the years, in keeping with Erickson’s original design and intention. There’s an interesting article in Vancouver Magazine about the difference between their informed maintenance and the slow degradation of Erickson’s nearby Graham House, which was demolished in 2007.
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Tags: architect, architecture, Arthur Erickson, Canada, Canadian, cedar, decor, design, exteriors, Ezra Stoller, glass, Gordon Smith, horizontal, house, interiors, Japanese, John Fulker, natural, Pacific Northwest, photographer, RIP, Smith House, Steven Zhen Wang, Vancouver, Vancouverite, West Vancouver, westcoast modernism, wood
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