JULIUS SHULMAN COLOR
Hardcover Book by David Wills
Foreword by Marvin Heiferman

Celebrate the vivid, rarely seen world of Julius Shulman, the legendary photographer whose images helped define modern architecture. While Shulman is widely known for his iconic black and white compositions, this groundbreaking volume reveals his equally masterful work in color, gathered for the first time in a single monograph.

Spanning eight decades, Shulman’s color photography documents modernism across the United States and around the world. From Southern California’s Case Study Houses to notable structures throughout Central and South America, Israel, and Asia, his lens captured the brilliance of Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and Ansco Safety Film with clarity and artistry.

This richly produced collection features unpublished and never-before-seen photographs scanned directly from the original transparencies by the Getty Research Institute. It includes Shulman’s color studies of architectural icons such as Richard Neutra, R. M. Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright and Lloyd Wright, Paul R. Williams, Eero Saarinen, John Lautner, Pierre Koenig, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and others.

Palm Springs enthusiasts will find special resonance, since Shulman’s luminous images of the desert’s most celebrated architects, including Albert Frey, Palmer and Krisel, Donald Wexler, William Cody, E. Stewart Williams, and A. Quincy Jones, have become central to the city’s identity and the worldwide appreciation of midcentury design.

Product Details

• Hardcover, 304 pages
• Approx. 14 in W x 11 in H x 1.5 in D
• Published 2025
• ISBN: 978-1-954193-12-3
• Library of Congress Control Number: 2023917515

A striking addition to any coffee table or library, this book offers an extraordinary new look at one of the most important visual chroniclers of modern architecture.