Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
LEWIS BALTZ | SANTA CRUZ
Auction Closed
October 3, 04:15 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LEWIS BALTZ
1945-2014
SANTA CRUZ
flush-mounted, the edges inked, mounted again, credit and annotations in pencil on the reverse, 1970; accompanied by old frame backing with typed credit and Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibition labels (2)
5⅝ by 8⅜ in. (14.3 by 21.1 cm.)
The photographer to Leland Rice, scholar, curator and photographer, a teaching colleague at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, California, 1973
Lewis Baltz, The Prototype Works (Göttingen, 2005), pl. 29
Lewis Baltz, The Prototype Works (Göttingen, 2011), pl. 41
Long Beach, The Art Galleries, California State University, The Photograph as Artifice, April 1978 and travelling thereafter to:
El Cajon, Grossmont College Art Gallery, November - December 1978
Carmel, Friends of Photography Sunset Center, December 1978 - January 1979
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February - March 1979
Object quality was of prime importance to Baltz. His exhibition prints were dry-mounted flush to a second piece of archivally processed photographic paper. The corners were clipped diagonally and the edges of the photograph were blackened with India ink. The photograph was then mounted to board slightly warmer in tone than the print. This presentation method ensures the photograph stands apart from, rather than sinks into, its surroundings.