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Architectural Photographer Balthazar Korab dies at 86
“On January 15, 2013, illustrious architect and photographer Balthazar Korab (1926-2013) lost his prolonged battle with Parkinson’s disease. Although he managed to keep a low profile throughout most of his life, Korab was one of the most prolific and celebrated architectural photographers of midcentury modernism.
Throughout his life he documented masterworks of the world’s most influential architects, including Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall, Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum and Salk Institute, Minoru Yamasaki’s World Trade Center, Richard Meier’s Douglas House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, and Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, among many others.
Recently published by the Princeton Architectural Press is the riveting illustrated biography, “Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography” by John Comazzi, that traces his circuitous path to a career in photography.”
simone de beauvoir at the deux magots, paris 6e, 1944
photo by robert doisneau, from robert doisneau: paris 2013 wall calendar
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Mario Asnago e Claudio Vender - Via Faruffini 6, Milano, 1954
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Garry Winogrand, Paris
1967
Robert Mapplethorpe - Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1976. Photograph on paper
From the Tate Gallery, London:
The bodybuilder and budding actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger poses in a space rendered theatrical by a curtain that cuts the image at the top into two halves. The curve of the curtain to the left is echoed in Schwarzenegger’s pose – his extended right leg and curved right arm. It shows Mapplethorpe’s interest in the classical tradition with Schwarzenegger’s exceptionally muscular physique reminiscent of Michelangelo’s figures in the Sistine Chapel.
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Robert Mapplethorpe - Portrait of Artists; Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, 1983-86. Photograph on paper
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Tippi Hedren
