There's a nice little vignette on the venerable architectural photographer, Julius Shulman, in this week's _The New Yorker_ (Dec. 4, 2006, pp. 40-41) in the "Talk of the Town" section under the guise of a piece on Philip Johnson's Glass House.
Here is a page about his work--
http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/shulman/
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