
Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its ... (Full plot summary below)
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Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.
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| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThis stylish film reminds us that great images endure after bodies and buildings crumble. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyShulman photographed buildings as if they were movie stars: He found their best angles and immortalized them. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAssociated with the modernist architectural movement centered in Southern California during the mid-20th century, Shulman’s still photographs are essential to any study of the style’s vast popularization and commercialism. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerShulman was around so long that he even got to weigh in on Frank Gehry's Disney Hall. He was skeptical once but came to love it. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNominally about the life and career of landmark Southern California architectural photographer Julius Shulman, but it's more about the buildings he photographed than it is about him. Which is probably the way he'd like it. |
| The New York TimesAndy WebsterIt’s about lovely photographs of graceful buildings and those who can afford the real estate. But it does pay proper respect to a deserving artist. |
| Village VoiceElla TaylorEnjoyable as it is, Bricker's giddy hagiography could have used a little pushback, especially in the matter of Shulman's airy dismissal of the postmodernism that, he claimed, forced him into "retirement." |
| Time OutKeith UhlichVisual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrEssential viewing for builders, graphic designers, visual artists, and other optically inclined folk, but it’s a bit of a slog for the uninitiated. |