FROM THE CENTER TO THE MARGINS AND BACK AGAIN

摘要

In 1965, the architectural photographer Julius Shulman was hired by the United States Information Agency to take a portrait of Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams, who this year is being posthumously honored as the first African-American winner of the AIA Gold Medal. Shulman took Williams to Los Angeles International Airport, which at that point had been open for four years. It was a natural choice, given that LAX was among the most prominent symbols of modern Los Angeles (and the growth of postwar Southern California more generally) and that Williams had been a prominent member of the airport's design team.