Decades ago, Erica Stoller accompanied her father, the architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, on a shoot of the Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza in New York. It was cavernous and dark, but Ezra insisted that a shaft of light would burst through in 15 minutes. “The plaza was full of sun,” she remembers. “It did just what he told it to do.” — nytimes.com
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The Times lets us down, here -- their usual practice of titling (identifying) images in a slideshow is mysteriously suspended.
Nevertheless, we see Stoller as "the architect's friend" -- carefully composing images which flatter the subject. As an "architect's friend" myself I approve of the effort to show admirable buildings in their best light (as it were). Ezra Stoller seems to be the servant of two motivations: to create an enjoyable two-dimensional composition, and to describe a three-dimensional object effectively -- putting him squarely in the tradition of artists both Western and Eastern, spanning at least five centuries of image-making activity . . . ?
Heh-heh -- here's a link to the Times magazine article, in which the seven photographed structures are identified with captions. That early Twitchell/Rudolph house is sweet . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/21/magazine/ezra-stoller.html