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Published: Apr 19, 2011

ATLANTA, Georgia-The SCAD exhibitions department is pleased to present "Capturing an Icon: Ezra Stoller and Modern Architecture," at Gallery See, now on display through May 16. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

This impressive selection of gelatin silver prints by the acclaimed architectural photographer chronicles a period of sweeping change in contemporary art and design. Stoller's images showcase the work of many Modernist architects-Alvar Aalto, Pietro Belluschi, Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright and the architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - that would later become an indelible part of architectural history. So influential were these image, if architects were able to have their buildings shot by Ezra Stoller, it was said their buildings had been "Stollerized."

"The photographs on view are as seminal as the buildings they depict, such as Philip Johnson's Glass House or Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. Architects admired Stoller's precise attention to composition and light and his ability to illuminate their vision within a photograph," said Stephanie Greene, SCAD Atlanta assistant curator. "This exhibition perfectly complements the range of academic programs at the university, including architecture, art history, interior design, and of course photography."

Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915 and graduated from New York University in 1938. He worked briefly with the photographer Paul Strand in the Office for Emergency Management before being drafted in 1942 into the U.S. Army, where he taught photography at the Army Signal Corps Photo Center in Long Island City. During his long career, he also photographed factories and technical facilities as well as residential projects. In 1961, he became the first photographer to be awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and belong to numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.

This show was organized in conjunction with SCAD Style 2011. For more information, visit scadexhibitions.com.

Gallery See
1600 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia

Gallery hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.