Bio
b. Chicago, IL, 1915–2004
EDUCATION
1938
BFA, Industrial Design, New York University, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture, Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York, NY
2019
Ezra Stoller: Architectural Photographs, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2017
Ezra Stoller Photographs Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Ezra Stoller: Photographing Modernism, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
2013
Ezra Stoller, Beyond Architecture, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Ezra Stoller, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Capturing an Icon: Ezra Stoller and Modern Architecture, Gallery See, SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; Pinnacle Gallery, SCAD Galleries, Savannah, GA
2007
Ezra Stoller: Buildings of New York, Danziger Projects, New York, NY
2004
Ezra Stoller, Fifty Photographs, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Rolf Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1999
James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
1998
James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
TECHNOSCAPE The architecture of engineers, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2021
Transparency in Architecture and Beyond, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2020
IN FOCUS: New Acquisitions in Photography, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2018
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2017
Quest for Beauty: The Architecture, Landscapes, and Collections of John Yeon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Creativity on the Line: Design for the Corporate World, 1950–1975, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
2016
Mastering the Metropolis: New York City and Zoning, 1916-2016, Museum of the City of New York, New York City
2015
Paul Rudolph, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2014
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Architecture + Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Evan Woollen: The Art of Architecture, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2013
Insights into Architecture, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Seagram Plaza, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1998
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1961
Gold Medal for Photography, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
COLLECTIONS
Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York, NY
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
Zeiger, Mimi. “Midcentury Modern in Black and White.” Aperture Spring 2020
Caldwell, Kenneth. “A Space of Perceptual Stillness: How Ezra Stoller Photographed Modernity.” Metropolis 28 January 2020
Shapiro, Bill. “What you can learn from the architectural photographer Ezra Stoller.” Blind 9 January 2020
2019
Stamp, Elizabeth. “A History of Modern American Architecture.” Architectural Digest 13 November 2019
Serraino, Pierluigi. A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture Phaidon
de Monchaux, Thomas. “Ezra Stoller turned Buildings into Monuments.” The New Yorker 6 October 2019
2018
Smyth, Diane. “Architectural gems by Ezra Stoller on show in Moscow.” British Journal of Photography 14 September 2018
“Memorable monuments to American modernism – in pictures.” The Guardian 11 September 2018
Rose, Julian. “City Planar.” Artforum May 2018
Bernstein, Fred A. “Parrish Art Museum Exhibition Explores Architecture’s Relationship with Photography.” Interior Design 26 April 2018
Levere, Jane. “Parrish Art Museum Exhibition Explores How Photographers Manipulate and Portray Architecture.” Metropolis Magazine 10 April 2018
“The Parrish Art Museum Opens 2018 with ‘Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture’.” Hamptons Art Hub 14 March 2018
Olds, Jeremy. “What Architects Owe Phototgraphers.” Surface 9 March 2018
2017
Jones, Amelie. “Ezra Stoller Photographs Frank Lloyd Wright.” We Heart 21 August 2017
“Ezra Stoller at Yossi Milo Gallery.” Blouin Artinfo 25 July 2017
Kearney, Kathryn. “Exhibition Review: Ezra Stoller at Yossi Milo Gallery.” Musée 6 July 2017
“Ezra Stoller’s Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright.” Photo District News 29 June 2017
Mason, Brook. “Ezra Stoller Captures Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Buildings.” Architectural Digest 5 June 2017
Wachs, Audrey. “See Frank Lloyd Wright in three places this June.” The Architect’s Newspaper 31 May 2017
2015
Krule, Jackson. “Ezra Stoller’s V-J Day.” The New Yorker Photo Booth 17 February 2015
Bennett, Lennie. “Photograph exhibitions showcase nuance of black and white.” Tampa Bay Times 21 January 2015
2013
“Ezra Stoller.” The New Yorker 25 February 2013
Heinrich, Will. “’Ezra Stoller: Beyond Architecture’ at Yossi Milo Gallery.” The New York Observer 18 February 2013
Iovine, Julie. “Ezra Stoller: Beyond Architecture.” The Wall Street Journal 14 February 2013
Heller, Billy. “Modern Art.” New York Post 8 February 2013
Kimmelman, Michael. “Capturing Modernism’s Chic and Sheen.” The New York Times 6 February 2013
Cuénin, Jonas. “Ezra Stoller: A Scale Model of America.” Le Journal de la Photographie 2 February 2013
“Ezra Stoller, ‘Beyond Architecture.’” Time Out New York 31 January 2013
Cole, Julie. “Sharp Focus.” Architectural Digest January 2013
Lassell, Michael. “The Stoller Mystique.” Modern Magazine Winter 2013
2012
Capps, Kriston and Janelle Zara. “The Architecture Exhibits You Need to See in 2013.” Architect 31 December 2012
Capps, Kriston and Janelle Zara. “The Architecture Books You Should Have Read in 2012.” Architect 27 December 2012
Rhea Leighton, Maxinne. “Oculus Book Review: ‘Ezra Stoller, Photographer.’” eculus 19 December 2012
Makovsky, Paul. “Image Maker: Ezra Stoller” Metropolis Magazine 14 December 2012
Madsen, Deane. “Ezra Stoller: Photographer” Architect Magazine 13 December 2012
Nolin, Maggie. “Ezra Stoller’s Photography: A Retrospective.” Dwell 5 December 2012
Stathaki, Ellie. “Inside the Archives of American Photographer Ezra Stoller.” Wallpaper 4 December 2012
Heathcote, Edwin. “Best Book of 2012.” Financial Times 3 December 2012
“Ezra Stoller: Photographer.” San Francisco Chronicle 1 December 2012
“Modern Architecture’s Golden Age, Captured by a Master Photographer.” Co. Design Winter 2012
Lamster, Mark. “The Other Ezra Stoller.” The Design Observer 27 November, 2012
Conway, Richard. “Recording Modernism: The Work of Ezra Stoller.” Time LightBox 16 November 2012
Gross, Jessica. “The Modernist Viewfinder.” The New York Times. 19 October 2012
Selldorf, Annabelle. “Marvel at Modernism.” The Wall Street Journal 14 September 2012
Rappaport, Nina and Erica Stoller. Ezra Stoller, Photographer Yale University Press
2011
Hersh, Allison. “For Ezra Stoller, ‘the art is the architecture.’ Savannah Morning News. 24 July 2011.
Kuspit, Donald. “Ezra Stoller [review].” ARTFORUM. April 2011.
Crosbie, Michael J. “Ezra Stoller.” ArchitectureWeek. 23 February 2011.
“Ezra Stoller.” The New Yorker. 31 January 2011.
Viladas, Pilar. “Now Showing – Ezra Stoller.” The New York Times. 6 January 2011.
2000/99
“Building Blocks” Series, Princeton Architectural Press:
Chapel at Ronchamp
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
The Salk Institute
The Seagram Building
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
The TWA Terminal
The United Nations
The Whitney Museum
The Yale Art + Architecture Building
1999
Guggenheim New York/Guggenheim Bilbao, with Jeff Goldberg. Princeton Architectural Press
1993/66
The Galveston That Was by Howard Barnstone, Photographs by Henry Cartier-Bresson and Ezra Stoller:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1966
Rice University Press, 1993
1990
Abrams, Harry N. Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller.