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His steps aided by a cane are slower and more cautious, and his voice more subdued, but Julius Shulman’s bright eyes still twinkle when scrutinizing scenes and people, and it is as difficult as ever to get a word in edgewise when talking with him.

Appropriately entitled Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles, the exhibit displays well his genius of composition and illumination in many rarely seen photographs culled from the archives of the Getty Research Institute. They are hypnotizing and timeless for those of us who savor the city.

The result is that like many of the architectural designs he has photographed over his celebrated 70-year career, Shulman has become an icon, with all the approbations and gossamer that accompany such appellations. It has put a smile on his handsome face, and I am happy for him.

Perhaps it was that Julius was born in Brooklyn, as I was. It appears that though he lived there only a short time, he never quite lost some of the competitive nature and contentiousness that marks many of the borough’s children, even those who move on to bask in the warm glow of the sun and spirit of Southern California.

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