
Southwest Wall, Vollrath, 2424 McGaw, Irvine from The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
A stark, black-and-white photograph documenting the featureless exterior wall of an industrial building in Irvine, California, rendered with Baltz's characteristic cool precision and minimalist aesthetic. The gelatin silver print reduces the manufactured landscape to geometric planes of light and shadow, stripping the structure of any narrative or human presence. This work exemplifies Baltz's critical examination of postwar American industrial sprawl and the bland, anonymous architecture that defines it.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
April 9, 2018
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