- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Steidl Verlag (18 July 2005)
- Language German
- ISBN-10: 3865211267
- ISBN-13: 978-3865211262
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 28.8 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,509,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Baltz's pictures are object-images, physical presences themselves, not representations of things. Although they are signs of real-world objects, they are also independent, archetypal forms...they have an inevitability, an inscrutability, a permanence, even a stateliness. His images demand more than contemplation and delectation: they demand reckoning...Baltz's work exemplifies the ways in which photography, beginning some four decades ago, started to loose the bonds of its isolation within its own segregated history and aesthetics and began to take its place among other media. This publication helps to set the record straight by revealing Lewis Baltz's significant role in this revolutionary shift. Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art Reproduced for the first time, Lewis Baltz's earliest portfolio The Tract Houses (1971) and his preliminary forays into a minimal aesthetic, as represented in The Prototype Works (1967-1976), illuminate Baltz's drive to capture the reality of a sprawling Western ecology gone wild.Together with The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, this trilogy reveals the indelible importance of Baltz in the changing course of contemporary photography.
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German publisher Steidl (in association with RAM and The Whitney Museum) have compiled this slipcased edition of classic early works by the American photographer Lewis Blatz. The set contains "The Prototype Works", "The Tract Houses" and "The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California", each presented as a separate volume.
In these photographs Baltz applied a Minimalist aesthetic to his exploration of late 60's and early 70's American West Coast suburban concrete sprawl. For anyone interested in the development of Contemporary Photography and/or Minimalist art, this collection is essential. The books are presented with all the usual Steidl attention to quality and the tritone reproductions are nothing short of stunning.
A classic publication.
In these photographs Baltz applied a Minimalist aesthetic to his exploration of late 60's and early 70's American West Coast suburban concrete sprawl. For anyone interested in the development of Contemporary Photography and/or Minimalist art, this collection is essential. The books are presented with all the usual Steidl attention to quality and the tritone reproductions are nothing short of stunning.
A classic publication.
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