Ezra Stoller was a great artist, but it would be hard to deduce that truth from the 13 images on display here at the Addison Gallery at Phillips Andover Academy.

Stoller (1915-2004) was an architectural photographer. He flourished during the heyday of the modern movement in American architecture, from the early 1940s through the early '70s. His images were often superior, in artistic quality and cultural influence, to the buildings they recorded.

So influential was Stoller's work that many architects didn't feel a building was complete until it had been "Stollerized" - a term that gives this exhibit its name. He came to have as much influence on architectural taste as did the architects whose buildings he recorded. He was the acknowledged leader of a generation of great photographers who believed in modernism and promoted it with evocative images.

Alas, you'd never guess Stoller's greatness from this show. I wasn't sure the prints on view were all even done by Stoller himself, but his daughter Erica, who manages his archive, believes they were. But the Addison's lighting is too dim to bring out the amazing tonal range of a Stoller print. By a chance that would have made the photographer grind his teeth, photos by his disliked West Coast rival, Julius Schulman, are better lit in this same Addison Gallery in another show called "Birth of the Cool."