Last week, , an influential architectural photographer who died in 2004 at age 89. His images of landmark mid-century modernist buildings often became as iconic as the buildings themselves, Kimmelman writes:
Picture Eero Saarinen鈥檚 TWA Terminal, or Philip Johnson鈥檚 Glass House, or the Manufacturers Trust building by Gordon Bunshaft, with its bank vault by Henry Dreyfus. Chances are you鈥檝e got one of Stoller鈥檚 images in mind.
In fact, in these pre-Internet, pre-discounted-airline days, it was Stoller's photos, through publication or exhibition, that helped spread the gospel of architecture's then-new, clean lines. And this new, posthumous Stoller solo show, , serves as a retrospective of it all.
But New York wasn't the only placed the photographer worked As Kimmelman points out in the Times, he also captured modernist images in Miami. .
Stoller's bright photo, taken at the height of sunlight and during a still moment, perfectly portrayed the garage's horizontal lines and airy sides and top. In a way, Stoller helped cement this place as the original sexy Miami parking garage, some six decades before the .
That's the only Miami photo in that current Stoller gallery show. But if you're an architecture geek, , and .
However, Stoller returned to Miami throughout the years, and you can find his shots in our city around the web. In fact, he helped legitimize the Miami Modern, or MiMO, movement.
For instance, . The photo documents the original glory of the place, complete with its functionally useless staircase and fancy, vintage-fab furnishings tossed out in subsequent renovations.
Elsewhere, . And . . In a city with little sense of history in its urban fabric, Stoller's photos help preserve some of the past.
