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Now that Arty Girl doubles as the Assistant Night and Day Editor, I
know dang well that New Times has already given you plenty reason to check out the
Visual Acoustics film at the Phoenix Art Museum this Sunday.
But I feel the need to stress a couple things in this blog.
1) The photographs are beautiful (just see for yourself after the jump)
2) The Phoenix Art Museum has a brand spankin’ new video projector that totally rocks
“It increases the image size of 4:3 ratio films and drastically increases the size to fill the entire screen with 16:9 ratio films,” says Steve Weiss, Executive
Director for No Festival Required, who is presenting the film. “I’ve told my audience it is the difference between mud and silk.”
The film is all about the life and career of Julius Shulman, a man
that many people like to call “the world’s greatest architectural
photographer”.
As art lovers, we must be thankful for folks like Shulman. Since most
of us don’t
have the scratch to travel across America on an architectural tour,
photos are the only way to experience these spaces. If it weren’t
for skillful architectural photography, we would never get a sense of
the building’s impact.
Yep, we need people like Shulman who can use his photographic skill to
take our breath away – much like the building he photographed would if
we saw them in real life.
You’ll hear the story how the man shot famous buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry.
Fine art photography, fantastic architecture, and incredible projection quality? It’s a feast for the eyes, it is.
Visual Acoustics will screen this Sunday, March 28 at 1 p.m. in Whiteman
Hall at Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue, 602-257-1880, www.phxart.org.
