Lewis Baltz - Candlestick Point (SUPER FRESH CONDITION) - 2011

EXCELLENT NEW EDITION OF THE PHOTOBOOK CLASSIC by legendary Lewis Baltz.

EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH AND FLAWLESS, LIKE NEW AND UNREAD CONDITION.
Collector's copy.

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Lewis Baltz is the maker of many important photobooks like 'The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California (Leo Castelli, 1974; Andrew Roth, pages 228-229; The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, pages 298-299; 802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 576) 'Park City' (Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 2, page 34) or 'Candlestick Point' (for the first time published by Aperture in 1989).

Lewis Baltz was participant at the famous exhibition "New Topographics" (International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. 1975) and is famous for "Park City" (Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 2, page 34).

Steidl, Göttingen. 2011. First Steidl edition, first printing.

Clothbound hardcover (as issued). 322 x 245 cm. 128 pages. 50 photographs. Photos: Lewis Baltz. Text by Wolfgang Scheppe. Book design by Lewis Baltz, Bernard Fischer, Gerhard Steidl. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside and outside like new. Marginal trace of use. No remarkable flaws or defects. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Great photobook classic by Lewis Baltz - in wonderful fresh condition.

"The New York curator Marvin Heiferman characterized Lewis Baltz's landscape photography as a "topography of the emptiness of random, damaged, remote places". The images in his 1989 series Candlestick Point from the San Francisco bay area lay bare what we'd rather not see; traces of technical land development, drainage channels, water dams. Baltz's photographic record of the development at Candlestick Point combines sociological and analytical rigour and is strongly oriented towards the tradition of Land Art, and retrospectively pays tribute to its crucial influence on conceptual art since the 1970s. Candlestick Point was first published in 1989 and has been unavailable for decades, other than as an expensive collectible on the secondary photobook market."
(Steidl, publisher of new edition of 'The Candlestick Point')

'Lewis Baltz was born in Newport Beach, California, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and received an MFA from the Claremont Graduate School in 1971. He worked as a freelance photographer in California and taught photography at various institutions, including the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California (Riverside and Santa Cruz), Yale, the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the Art Academy of Helsinki. His work has been included in major exhibitions, including New Topographics at the George Eastman House in 1975 and Mirrors and Windows at the Museum of Modern Art in 1978. Baltz, who received National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1973 and 1977 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, has produced many projects on commission, among them The Nation's Capital in Photographs for the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Near Reno for the Nevada State Arts Commission. He has been based in Europe since the mid-1980s and travels extensively.
Lewis Baltz produces photographs in series focused on a particular theme or geographic area and usually publishes them in book form, as in The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California (1975), Nevada (1978) and Park City (1981). His work, like that of others associated with the New Topographics, challenges the nineteenth century tradition of western landscape photography represented by Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and William Henry Jackson by presenting a less innocent view of the landscape. Baltz's perception of the landscape necessarily reveals the effects of twentieth-century culture and suburban development on the nation's topography. His books, Rule Without Exception (1991), Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, and Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit (1998) reproduce color work dealing with Europe's urban landscapes.'
- Lisa Hostetler, ICP (International Center of Photography Museum) -