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Contents | November 2006

Also by Virginia Postrel:

"Superhero Worship" (October 2006)
Once the province of Garbo and Astaire, movie glamour now comes from Superman, Spider-Man, and Storm.

"Signs of Our Times" (September 2006)
In under a century, neon signs—part sculpture, part lighting, part billboard—have gone from marketing tool to tacky trash to folk art.

"The Next Starbucks?" (July/August 2006)
How massage went from the strip club to the strip mall.

The Atlantic Monthly | November 2006

Pursuits & Retreats

Commerce And Culture

The Iconographer

(page 1 of 2)

In Julius Shulman’s photographs, modern architecture became seductive, comfortable, and immortal

by Virginia Postrel

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Elsewhere on the Web:

Julius Sherman, Modernity, and the Metropolis
The Web page of an exhibition at the Getty Museum. Includes photos and audio of Shulman discussing his work.

n the fall of 1919, a young Austrian architect dreamed of escape—escape from the frigid European winter, from the “psychological collapse” of a demoralized culture, from the “empty cheerless drafting” that consumed his workdays. “I wish I could get out of Europe,” he wrote in his diary, “and get to an idyllic tropical island where one does not have to fear the winter, where one does not have to slave but finds time to think, or even more important, can have a free spirit.” A travel poster in Zurich obsessed him: California Calls You, it read.

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Virginia Postrel is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and the author of The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies. Her blog, the Dynamist, can be found at www.dynamist.com/weblog.