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Lewis Baltz — The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
Lewis Baltz

The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California

Comprising 51 stark black and white photographs, Lewis Baltz's seminal work documents the anonymous, austere architecture of industrial developments near Irvine, California, reducing corporate structures to their most minimal geometric forms. The photographs capture blank walls, empty lots, and featureless facades with a cool, detached precision that critiques postwar American suburban expansion and the encroachment of industrial development on the landscape. Presented in a gray cloth-bound volume with a photo-illustrated dust jacket, this artist-signed edition stands as a landmark of New Topographics photography.

Medium
Signed in ink by the artist on the title page. 51 black and white photographs. Original white photo-illustrated dust-jacket over gray cloth book with spine and front cover lettered in black.

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Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

October 1, 2014

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Lewis Baltz, The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California

Comprising 51 stark black and white photographs, Lewis Baltz's seminal work documents the anonymous, austere architecture of industrial developments near Irvine, California, reducing corporate structures to their most minimal geometric forms. The photographs capture blank walls, empty lots, and featureless facades with a cool, detached precision that critiques postwar American suburban expansion and the encroachment of industrial development on the landscape. Presented in a gray cloth-bound volume with a photo-illustrated dust jacket, this artist-signed edition stands as a landmark of New Topographics photography.

Medium
Signed in ink by the artist on the title page. 51 black and white photographs. Original white photo-illustrated dust-jacket over gray cloth book with spine and front cover lettered in black.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

California Subject Matter, Conceptual Photography, Architectural Subject, 20th Century, Minimalist Aesthetic, Male Artist, Black and White Photography, American Photographer, Photobook, New Topographics, Urban Documentation, Signed Edition, Monochromatic, Industrial Landscape

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