Ezra Stoller Architectural Photography
June 19-December 19, 2004

Williamstown, MA—Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will present Ezra Stoller Architectural Photography, on view June 19-December 19, 2004. This exhibition features approximately fifty of Stoller’s black and white photographs of famous modern American buildings, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum and Edgar Kaufmann house, known as Fallingwater, Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson’s Seagram Building, Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal, Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture Building, and Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute. As Paul Goldberger, the former architecture critic of the New York Times, has written, “…[Stoller’s] pictures are surely among the most reproduced, and they have in and of themselves played a major role in shaping the public’s perception of what modern architecture is all about.”

Working at the height of the modernist style in America (from the mid-1940s through the 1960s), Ezra Stoller became one of the preeminent architectural photographers in the world. His exacting attention to detail and unparalleled ability to translate an architect’s vision into two dimensions has made his images prized by architects, editors, and collectors. Indeed, he was considered ‘the only man for the job’ among architects seeking images of their work, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Marcel Breuer. Commentary by Stoller on the architects with whom he worked and information about the conditions he encountered while making the photographs will be
included.

About the Artist
Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915. He graduated from the New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts with a degree in industrial design in 1938. He soon became a freelance photographer specializing in architecture and industrial subjects. From 1940 to 1941 he worked for the photographer Paul Strand in the Office for Emergency Management. Drafted in 1942, he taught photography at the Army Signal Corps Photo Center in New York City. In 1961 he became the first photographer to be awarded the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. In 1966 he founded the photography agency ESTO Photographics, which still represents his work and that of a number of other architectural photographers. Mr. Stoller and his wife Helen currently live in Williamstown.

Publicity Images Available
Publicity images for Ezra Stoller Architectural Photography and other current exhibitions are available. Images include TWA Terminal, Idlewild Airport (now Kennedy Airport), Queens, New York, Seagram Building, New York, and Guggenheim Museum, New York. They can be found at ww.wcma.org/press.

The Williams College Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free and the museum is wheelchair accessible.

Contact: Suzanne Augugliaro, Public Relations Coordinator
413.597.3178; www.wcma.org

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