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Kitt Peak Solar Observatory
1962 · gelatin silver print
Image: 34.7 x 27.7 cm (13 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ezra Stoller
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7
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4
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9
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Inside Spaces
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright House Revisited
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963
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Color Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Taliesin and Taliesin West
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
About
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Ezra Stoller was an American architectural photographer whose black-and-white photographs documented modernist buildings with unprecedented precision and formal clarity. Working from the 1940s onward, he created a comprehensive visual archive of postwar American architecture, capturing works by architects including Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen, and Le Corbusier. His photographs prioritized geometric composition, sharp detail, and the relationship between structure and landscape, establishing a documentary standard that influenced how modernist architecture was understood and reproduced. Stoller's negatives and prints form one of the most significant collections of twentieth-century architectural documentation.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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