A portrait created utilizing HDR (1) photography of detail of the Stealth, a building from the mind of by the architect Eric Owen Moss (2). This photograph is only a portion of the southern end of the building.
I have never actually been inside of this magnificent building, but on several occasions and always at night, I have attended business functions in a building adjacent to it. Each and every time I went there, I would be so very taken by the presence of the Stealth and several others buildings in that immediate area, at least some of which are also designed by Eric Moss, that I would always make a mental note to come back in the light of day and check this place out. It wasn’t until I recently read a review in The New Yorker that I finally made the time to take a trip over the hill and across the basin to check out this part of Culver City, CA which is known as the Hayden Tract.
The lines of the Stealth are bold and striking and simultaneously warm and welcoming. The golden California sunset embraced and engulfed the softness of the natural colors of the building in the background. As the architecture writer Paul Goldberger stated, “there is a wound-up tension in Moss’s buildings.” And to my eye as a photographer, it screams out to be photographed in HDR.
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1. In photography, image processing, and computer graphics, high-dynamic-range imaging (HDR) is a set of techniques which incorporate bracketed exposures, that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight. Tone-mapping techniques, which reduce overall contrast to facilitate display of HDR images on devices with lower dynamic range, can be applied to produce images with preserved or exaggerated local contrast for artistic effect.
2. According to Wikipedia: Eric Owen Moss (b. 1943 in Los Angeles (LA), California) practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based 25-person firm founded in 1973.
Throughout his career Moss has worked to revitalize a once defunct industrial tract in Culver City, California.
Moss received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965, his Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design in 1968 and a second Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1972. Moss taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1974 and was appointed director in 2002. He has held chairs at Yale and Harvard universities, and appointments at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Moss received a 1998 AIA/LA Medal for his architectural work as well as the Business Week/Architectural Record Award in 2003 for the design and construction of the Stealth project, Culver City, California. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the Distinguished Alumni Award for the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. Moss received the 2007 Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. There are ten published monographs on the work of Moss’ office.
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