The Bischoff's.
http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/large/63.20_01_d03.jpg
I think this is from one of the old studio buildings on campus that was torn down. The window is covered in muslim to kill the glare. Below is later:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2723818526_d8b74a80ce.jpg?v=0
Bischoff had an off campus studio right around the corner from where I live. I worked in the unhappy wheelchair trade downstairs from his place, and envied it greatly. The rent was way beyond my means by then. I would see him occasionally cranking up his motorcycle parked in a kind of small dead zone between no parking and metered parking.
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/04/15/dd-baker26_ph1_0500033671.jpg
Here is an Antonioni still from La Notte:
http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/images/la-nottestill.jpg
And the North by Northwest shot:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/229853177_2b690eb3f6.jpg
The deep influence is of course the Bauhaus designers and architects. Well and Frank Lloyd Wright.
I realize it is very difficult to understand why these kinds of images held such a radical kind of promise to me, that modernity would conquer all the ills of the past. And then slowly as the 60s-70s progressed, that promised redemption turned into a cold place of raw alienation, and finally just another prison.
On yet another of my great dates in LA as a kid, we dressed up. I had a dark suit and tie, and Linda had a continental bun with silver earings, lush lipstick, low cut black dress and pearls, oh and spike heels with needle point toes. We took my mother's Cadillac and drove down to LAX before it was finished walking around the construction and half finished buildings. Some of the terminals were open and we watched the big PamAm jets come in. We were pretending to act in an Antonioni flick. The funny-sad part was, it wasn't acting. We knew we didn't love each other. All we had to share was a nice time in an interesting place of dreams.
Shulman has some photographs of LAX about that time. The space age was already an irony before it was accomplished. I couldn't afford the lounge and we went somewhere in Santa Monica for dinner.
http://www.getty.edu/visit/images/shulman_lax.jpg
Then other houses:
http://www.iamdianthus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/28d_chuey_residence_julius_shulman.jpg
http://www.psmodcom.com/pix/Architects%20Pix/WilliamsPix/Sinatra%20-%203%20-%20Shulman.jpg
What cracks me up about that time was I still looked about fourteen, with the mind of forty. Complete dislocating weirdness.
CG
