Artist Index: Baltz, Lewis

Baltz, Lewis. Candlestick Point. Ca. 120 Bl. Mit zahlreichen, teils gefalteten fotograf. Abb. 26 x 33,5 cm. OPappband in OPappschuber. Tokyo und New York, Gallery Min bzw. Aperture, 1989.
Erste Ausgabe. Titelblatt mit eigenhändiger Widmung von Lewis Baltz. – Sehr gutes Exemplar. Mit Besitzvermerk von Wilmar König. – Dabei: Lewis Baltz. Die Toten von Newport Beach. - Sechs Geschichten für vier Männer. 2 Bde. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 32 x 19 cm. OHalbleinen. In OPappkassette. Braunschweig, Museum für Gestaltung, 1995.

"Prospector Village, Lot 105, looking North", from the portfolio "Park City". 1979. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 x 24 cm (20 x 25,3 cm). Signed and annotated frohe Weihnachten 1981 by the photographer in pencil on the verso.

A fine tonal print in excellent condition.

Lit.: Lewis Baltz/Gus Blaisdell. Park City. New York 1980, ill. plate 45.

San Quentin Point. 1979. Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 16 x 24 cm (20,2 x 25,3 cm). Signed and annotated für Wilmar - Geburtstag 1984 by the photographer as well as SQP24 in pencil on the verso.

A fine tonal print in excellent condition.

"Corona del Mar, 1971 B", from "The Prototype Works". Vintage gelatin silver print flush-mounted to thin card. 15,4 x 22,6 cm (19 x 22,6 cm). Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in felt-tip pen on mount verso.

Among his earliest works, this image belongs to a group of what Lewis Baltz called Prototypes, made during and directly after his student years (c. 1967-1973). These were photographs of recent residential and commercial “subarchitecture” in his home state of California and some of the earliest artworks to show the disturbing transformation of the American landscape into an unending terrain of anonymous buildings. These are also among the first photographs to search for the reductive forms of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist art in the outside world. The Prototype Works isolate objects in the constructed environment and invite the viewer to see them as image-objects in their own right.
In 1971, upon seeing the Prototypes, gallery owner Leo Castelli promptly agreed to exhibit Baltz’s photographs, remaining Baltz’s American representative until the artist relocated to Europe nearly twenty years later.
A print of this image is in the collection of the Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. – A few light spots, rubbed spots and pressure marks in margins, minimal pressure marks in left area of image, otherwise in very good condition.

Lit.: Lewis Baltz. The Prototype Works. Göttingen 2011, ill. plate. 77 (dated 1973).

Park City. With an essay by Gus Blaisdell. 246 p. With 102 photographs on plates by Baltz. 27,5 x 28,5 cm. Original canvas (upper right corner bumped) with illustrated original dust jacket (corners bumped, edges rubbed, diagonal fold mark on front cover). Albuquerque and New York, Artspace Press and Castelli Graphics, 1980.

802 photo books. p. 628. First edition of this legendary photo book. "Park City marks a key moment in Baltz's oeuvre, when he brought his conceptual instincts fully to the fore ... Rigorous, passionate, fiercely intelligent, Park City is one of the most important photobooks of the late twentieth century. Completely out of print in any edition, and surprisingly uncommon" (Parr & Badger). Signed and dedicated 1980 to Wilmar Koenig by the photographer in ink on the title page. – Upper right corner bumped throughout, otherwise clean copy.