[Exhibition]
Ezra Stoller and Franz Jentzen Exhibitions

About This Event

Ezra Stoller Exhibition
Featuring: "Inhabitating Architecture" and "Man in the Machine"

Primarily known for his creative and precise architectural photography for the major modern architects of the 20th century, Ezra Stoller(1915-2004) documented numerous postwar industries with the same careful compositions of light and shadow, texture and space, and the element of passing time.

Ezra Stoller Exhibition
Featuring: "Inhabitating Architecture" and "Man in the Machine"

Primarily known for his creative and precise architectural photography for the major modern architects of the 20th century, Ezra Stoller(1915-2004) documented numerous postwar industries with the same careful compositions of light and shadow, texture and space, and the element of passing time.

Mr. Stoller was the seminal figure in a group of talented American photographers who first emerged about 1930. They were devoted modernists and their images were crucial in introducing modern architecture to the larger culture. Architects in turn, were influenced by the photographers, and designed in the hope of inspiring a great image from Mr. Stoller.*

For exhibition in the semi-public spaces of 1050 K Street, curator Nina Rappaport has selected a special collection of images from Stoller's extensive oeurve.

*From Ezra Stoller obituary published by the Boston Globe, November 3, 2004.

Franz Jentzen Exhibition

Franz Jentzen (b. 1964) has been photographing architecture in Washington since the late 1980s, when he undertook a four year, 450 building survey for "Buildings of the District of Columbia," published by the Society of Architectural Historians in 1993. Other architectural projects include Cincinnati's Union Terminal (1982-84); the DC Community Humanities Council-funded "Duke Ellington's Washington" (1989-91); National Park Seminary/ Forest Glen in Silver Spring (1991); the Supreme Court Building (1993-98); a 16 month photographic essay on the rebuilding of the Investment Building (2000-01); historic homes in DC's Takoma neighborhood for Historic Takoma, Inc (2002); and the C&O Canal (1993-2003). He has lived in Washington, DC since 1986, and is represented by Hemphill Fine Arts in D.C. and Robert Klein Gallery in Boston.

Jantzen began photographing 1050 K. Street in February 2007. It is his second photographic essay of a Washington building under construction.