Iconic Photos ist ein Blog, auf das ich schon länger mal hinweisen wollte. Dort werden nicht nur einfach besondere Fotos gepostet, sondern auch Hintergründe zu den Bildern geliefert. Zum Beispiel das Foto von House No. 22, das bestimmt einige aus Film und Fernsehen kennen:
"Between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s, major architects of the day were invited to design affordable and efficient model homes, and some thirty of them were built, mostly in Southern California. The sponsor of this ambitious project was the Californian magazine Arts & Architecture, which engaged an architectural photographer named Julius Shulman to dutifully record them ... Fittingly for Shulman, one of the first architectural photographers to include the inhabitants of homes in the pictures, his most famous image was the 1960 view of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 22 (also the Stahl House), which showed two well-dressed women conversing casually inside ... In the photo, the cantilevered living room appears to float diaphanously above Los Angeles ... Yet this view was created as meticulously as the house itself. Wide-angle photography belied the actual smallness of the house; furniture and furnishings were staged, and as were the women. Although they were not models (but rather girlfriends of architectural students), they were asked to sit still in the dark as Shulman exposed the film seven minutes to capture lights from LA streets. Then, lights inside were quickly switched on to capture two posing women ..."
