Julius Shulman
Photos Showing the U.S. Flare Factory in Pacoima, CA, 1940s
Silver prints (23)
Each 10 x 8 inches
With photographer's credit stamp verso.
With photographer's credit stamp verso.
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A fascinating collection of photographs documenting war-time manufacturing efforts of the U.S. Flare Corporation’s Pacoima, California, plant, shot by the great architectural photographer Julius Schulman. The US Flare Corporation was...
A fascinating collection of photographs documenting war-time manufacturing efforts of the U.S. Flare Corporation’s Pacoima, California, plant, shot by the great architectural photographer Julius Schulman. The US Flare Corporation was founded on July 3rd, 1931, by J.M, Hoyt Jr. and during World War Two it was contracted by the army and navy to manufacture aircraft signals. Among the photos are interior shots of the plant’s operations, many showing women hard at work; exterior of the grounds and factory buildings, and bird's-eye views of the Pacoima plant.
Uniformly sharp and assured, the photographs speak to an interesting, early part of Schulman’s long career. In her essay “A Transitional Place,” the author Anne Blecksmith writes that through viewing his photographs from this time, “we are able to experience a more freehand body of work produced by Julius Shulman as a straightforward photographer before he developed a template for his own style of architectural photography” and that images such as the US Flare Corp. commission “provide a deeper understanding not only of the layered genesis of [his] career and archive but also of the multiple definitions and manifestations of “modern” he communicated and preserved in his photographs.”
Uniformly sharp and assured, the photographs speak to an interesting, early part of Schulman’s long career. In her essay “A Transitional Place,” the author Anne Blecksmith writes that through viewing his photographs from this time, “we are able to experience a more freehand body of work produced by Julius Shulman as a straightforward photographer before he developed a template for his own style of architectural photography” and that images such as the US Flare Corp. commission “provide a deeper understanding not only of the layered genesis of [his] career and archive but also of the multiple definitions and manifestations of “modern” he communicated and preserved in his photographs.”