Photographer Captures L.A.'s Vintage Homes


	Photographer Captures L.A.'s Vintage Homes

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3-26-2009 11:19 AM

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Magazines, newspapers, even family scrapbooks are full of photographs of houses — graphic examples of the American dream. But pictures by the 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman are in a league of their own, so distinctive that they are consulted by movie designers, collected by museums and cherished by homeowners who commission them.

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