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Architectural photographers
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Architectural photography shows buildings, outside and inside. This guide covers its main approaches, its history from the Mission héliographique to Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller, and techniques such as keeping verticals straight.
Karla and James Murray are wife-and-husband architectural and interior photographers based in New York City. Their book Counter Culture (Prestel, 2026) presents 30 of Manhattan’s diners and luncheonettes.
Carl Martin is an American artist, designer and builder who works in Athens, Georgia. His book Opportunities in Space (Fall Line Press, 2025) is about architecture and everyday buildings.
Laurent Kronental is a self-taught French photographer based in Paris. His series Souvenir d'un Futur (2011-2015) portrays elderly residents of Paris's large housing estates.
James Florio is a photographer based in Montana who works mostly with large format film. In 2025 MAS Context published his book Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal.
Arthur Drooker is a photographer and author based in Marin County, California. His self-published book Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge (2024) shows the bridge in black and white from unusual angles.
Gregor Sailer is an Austrian photographer who photographs hidden and restricted places with an analogue large-format camera. His latest book is Cockaigne (Kehrer Verlag, 2025).
Stanley Greenberg is a photographer who works in New York City. His book Waterworks documents the hidden water system of the city.
Hélène Binet (born 1959) is a Swiss-French photographer based in London. For about forty years she has photographed contemporary and historic architecture, from buildings by Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Zumthor to the work of Le Corbusier and Palladio.
Iwan Baan (born 1975) is a Dutch photographer of architecture and the built environment. He is known for pictures that show buildings together with the people who use them and the places around them.
Balthazar Korab (1926–2013) was a Hungarian-born architect and photographer who worked in the Detroit area. He is best known for his photographs of Eero Saarinen’s buildings, from the first study models to the finished TWA Flight Center.
Ezra Stoller (1915–2004) was an American photographer whose clear black-and-white pictures shaped how the world saw modern architecture.
Julius Shulman (1910–2009) was an American photographer whose pictures of modern houses shaped how the world sees mid-century California. He worked for about seventy years, for architects such as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig.