First monograph on the work of Balthazar Korab.; The author has been a friend and collaborator (in exhibits) with Korab since 1997, and has helped curate a number of traveling shows and has lectured frequently on his life and career.; The iconic work of Korab is continually included in exhibitions about midcentury modernist architecture, and the author is seeking funding to produce a traveling exhibition of Korab s photography form his time in Italy.; First published presentation of Korab s Presidential Series.; Foreword by Cesar Pelli.

"Mr. Korab, now 86, left design to be an in-house photographer, documenting masterworks like Mr. Saarinen's T.W.A. Terminal and Miller House. His story and images, dramatized by more than a touch of chiaroscuro, are collected in "Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography," by John Comazzi, just out from Princeton Architectural Press ($40)." --- The New York Times

John Comazzi is an Assistant Professor of Architecture, he teaches undergraduate and graduate level design courses and research seminars. He has been a personal acquaintance of Balthazar, Monica, and Christian Korab since 1997, when as a graduate student in architecture he assisted in the assembly of an exhibition of Mr. Korab s photography at the University of Michigan. Since 2006 he has conducted over twenty five hours of interviews with the Korabs and has spent countless hours examining the photographic archives in the Korab studio. He has lectured on the life and career of Balthazar Korab in both public and academic venues and together they have curated and assembled several traveling exhibitions.

Contents; Foreword by Cesar Pelli; Introduction: More Than a Self-portrait; Biography: The Making of a Photographer; Case studies; TWA Flight Center; The Miller House; Plates; Inflected Modernism; Beyond Modernism; Additional Portfolios; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography.