Visual Acoustics

In Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, the director, Eric Bricker, celebrates the life and career of the world's greatest architectural photographer. Shulman's images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. He captured the work of nearly every modern architect since the 30's; architects like Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. Shulman's work is especially significant in portraying the southern California modernist movement.
In the film we see some fantastic architectural images and Shulman himself shines as a charming charismatic character. What we begin to wonder though, is what is the art and who is the artist. Is the true art the buildings of Wright and Neutra and they the artists? Or is Shulman the artist and his photographs the art? Or perhaps Bricker is the artist and his film the art? In the end I think we recognize all as contributing to the collective appreciation of beauty whether it is found in an edifice, a photograph or a film.