Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Lewis Baltz
'Nevada'
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Lewis Baltz
1945 - 2014
'Nevada'
(New York: Castelli Graphics, 1978, a total edition of 46), a portfolio of 15 gelatin silver prints, each signed, dated, editioned '23/40,' and numbered sequentially in pencil on the reverse, each framed, 1977, printed in 1978; together with embossed title and plate list/colophon. Folio, grey linen clamshell case with embossed title
each image approximately: 6⅜ by 9½ in. (16.2 by 24 cm.)
each frame approximately: 15¾ by 18¾ in. (40 by 47.5 cm.)
portfolio case: 15¾ by 18⅝ by 1¾ in. (40 by 47.3 by 4.5 cm.)
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Lewis Baltz (Fundación MAPFRE, 2017), pp. 97-107
Lewis Baltz’s second portfolio, Nevada, is a collection of 15 black and white photographs taken in the area surrounding Reno. In these images, Baltz exposes the awkward encroachment of the suburbs into the raw, open desert, depicted through his photographs of barren brushy landscapes carved by desire paths and soil criss-crossed with bulldozer tracks. His thesis is underscored through several motifs: photographs in the desert sun contrasted with those taken in the glow of lightbulbs; clever flattening of space to draw attention to shape and texture; and studies of man-man structures placed next to desert flora.