From the exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans”. Read more about it.

Shorpy explains: “May 9, 1960. A landmark image in the history of modern architecture: Julius Shulman’s nighttime shot of Ann Lightbody and Cynthia Murfee in Case Study House No. 22, the Stahl residence in the Hollywood Hills, overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Architect: Pierre Koenig. The photo, taken with a Swiss-made Sinar 4x5 view camera, is a double exposure: Seven minutes for the background, then a flash shot for the interior, the house lights having been replaced with flashbulbs. There’s a fascinating account of the image at Taschen, where you can order a book on the Case Study houses.”

See another version of this shot by Julius Shulman.

Artist’s statement: “I start by photographing suburban and urban landscapes and then use these prints to begin my mixed-media paintings. I work back into the prints with paint and sometimes embroidery thread to alter the setting and distill the essential elements of each image. The lines between the ‘fact’ of the photographic image and the ‘fiction’ of the paint are blurred at times, but not denied. I am not trying to hide the process, but rather, I am investigating where fact and fiction meet and how they influence and inform one another, creating a new and arguably truer story.” (More).

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