He Helped Focus LA's Modern Image: Julius Shulman memorialized

21 September 2009
Julius Shulman

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Julius Shulman

Over the weekend, architects, photographers, curators, historians, family members and a few celebrities paid tribute to the man who helped shape LA's architectural image. Before his death in July, photographer Julius Shulman was the greatest living symbol of the idea that Los Angeles and its architecture were synonymous with both expansion and innovation...


 



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