Jerald Cooper receives the 2023 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award.
The Julius Shulman Institute (JSI) at 麻豆社区app is pleased to announce Jerald Cooper, founder of is the recipient of 2023鈥檚 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. Under the Instagram account Cooper has created a national visual discourse exploring and describing 鈥淏lack Modernism鈥� in architecture, communities and spatial experience. Unlike previous awards Cooper鈥檚 digital platform favors storytelling content that combines audio visual clips, photos and commentary over the printed image. The innovative medium of has attracted a large following and engagement with people interested in architecture and the built environment outside the usual commercial or museum context in a way that is reminiscent of Julius Shulman鈥檚 photographic oeuvre, which resulted in an explosion of interest in modern architecture through the medium of popular national magazines rather than museums and special interest literature.
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