Lewis Baltz
San Quentin Point
San Quentin Point. Photographs by Lewis Baltz. Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Aperture, Millerton, NY/Verlag Zwolftes Haus, 1986. Unpaged. First edition. One of 1200 copies. Squarish quarto. Hardcover. Clothbound in illustrated dust jacket with printed acetate protector. 58 photo-lithographic reproductions.
Lewis Baltz's early books, The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California and Park City explored the urbanization of America's landscape. "The unbroken surfaces that Baltz [depicts] have--in the photograph anyway--a kind of purity of pattern, often quite beautiful. Yet also implicit is a social comment that is less soothing, for the imagery has a closed-off, claustrophobic quality, as if nature itself were being blotted out by man's presence in it"--Michel Frizot, A New History of Photography, p. 656.
Very good in a very good dust jacket in a good plus acetate protector. This hardcover first edition copy from the initial printing is in very good condition with clean pages free of markings. The DJ is in very good condition with minor chipping along edges and spine and very minor signs of discoloration along lower front edge. The sunned spine printed acetate outer wrapper is in good plus condition with two closed tears on the spine repaired with archival tape, rubbing and shelfwear in the form of transfer of pigment from an adjoining title.
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