STOLLER, Ezra | Seven photographs of the UN Secretariat Building

Many years after his passing, Ezra Stoller (1915–2004) remains one of the most celebrated architectural photographers of the twentieth century. The artist’s concise and descriptive photographs defined perceptions of postwar modern architecture, providing viewers with visual footholds to explore these new structures. Among the iconic structures he photographed are Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, the Seagram Building, and the TWA Terminal. Often the images are as familiar as the buildings they document. Stoller’s work included photographs of science and technology, factories and industrial production plus commercial and residential architecture. His work can be seen as social history as well as a document of design and construction. Stoller worked closely with many of the period’s leading architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, I.M. Pei, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier and Mies van der Rohe, among others.  When the UN was being built, Stol