ABSTRACT
Despite having been taken by the renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, it is no surprise that the photograph was not taken for an architectural publication but commissioned by Life magazine nine years after completion. It is a living image of the house taken, in Shulman’s words ‘after Ray had gussied it up a little’.1 However, this image, more than any other, encapsulates what is important about the house, and about the entire programme from which it was conceived, starting with the very fact that it appeared in Life magazine: conrmation that the house and the Eameses were famous.
