Ezra Stoller: Igor Polevitzky, Heller House (1949), Miami, FL, 1950. | ©Ezra Stoller/Esto

The self-proclaimed ?archaeologist of the contemporary? shaped how we see midcentury architecture Architects shape buildings, but architectural photographers shape how we perceive them. During the midcentury there was one photographer that had an outsize influence: Ezra Stoller, the person leading practitioners like I.M. Pei, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill trusted to communicate their work and who, in turn, made them famous.
Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modernism, a new book from Phaidon, offers an unprecedented exploration of his archive and what made his images so captivating. While Stoller?s photographs have become one of the primary records of midcentury architecture, never before have so many of them been published in a single tome.
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Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modernism ($125) offers a deep dive into one of the 20th century?s most famous architectural photographers.

?This book is the story of Ezra Stoller?s epic and groundbreaking architectural adventure,? author Pierluigi Serraino writes in the introduction.
Born in 1915, Stoller trained as a draftsman and industrial designer before becoming a professional photographer. Active during the postwar years, he was perhaps the most in demand architectural photographer of his generation. In 1961 he became ...