Photography For Real Estate

Thanks to Clark Dugger for pointing out that National Public Radio had a wonderful little piece on Morning Edition recently on Julius Shulman. You can listen to the whole story by just clicking on the “Listen now” link. I love the quote by Shondell Spiegel who hired Shulman to come shoot her home. She characterizes [...]

VISUAL ACOUSTICS, the documentary film on Julius Shulman, is slated for a 2009 summer-fall theatrical release by Arthouse Films.  The DVD release should come in late 2009 or early 2010.  Arthouse, which describes itself  as the place “where art and films collide,” is an independent production and distribution label specializing in films that showcase art [...]

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman will be screened at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival on the following dates:

January 10 - Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum 4:00 PM
January 12 - Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Mueeum 9:00 AM

Tickets can be purchased here. For information contact Michelle Oliver [...]

I did a post on the new Julius Shulman film by Eric Bricker back in July but I want to point it out again because the film is being shown a independent film festivals and the site promoting the film (www.juliusshulmanfilm.com ) has been expanded a lot since July. There is now a trailer of [...]

Thanks to reader “mjdwilson” for passing along the link to this site on the Documentary film on 97 year old Julius Shulman. Shulman is considered by most the greatest Architectural photographer. Hopefully this film will be available soon on DVD.
If you are interested in Shulman see the March post featuring PFRE reader David Palermo’s personal [...]

Recently reader David Palermo had the opportunity to spend over an hour with one of the great architectural photographers, Julius Shulman at his LA home. With David’s permission I am reposting his description of his meeting with Shulman here just as David posted it on the PFRE flickr discussion group:

Early last week I got my copy of AD in the mail and was particularly impressed by an article that Peter Aaron did the photography for. I was hoping that the AD website would include this sequence of images in the online version so I could do a post on it… and they did. [...]

This month ArchitecturalDigest.com has images by the great Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman. These photos are a retrospective look at photos of architecture designed by the famous architect Richard Neutra.
Is that a light reflecting in the far window? We have to cut Shulman some slack… he didn’t have Photoshop to fix reflection problems.

I like to study images of well known Architectural Photographers. As we’ve talked about many times before, architectural photography and real estate photography are very different. Different clients, different budget and frequently very different equipment. But as different as they are I think real estate photographers can draw inspiration and ideas from the work and [...]