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LEWIS BALTZ, (American, b. 1945), MORGAN HILL, titled, dated and signed "MORGAN HILL 1973, Lewis ...

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LEWIS BALTZ, (American, b. 1945), MORGAN HILL, titled, dated and signed  MORGAN HILL 1973, Lewis ...
LEWIS BALTZ
(American, b. 1945)
MORGAN HILL
titled, dated and signed "MORGAN HILL 1973, Lewis Baltz" in black ink on verso
gelatin silver print
6 x 87/8 in. (15.2 x 22.5 cm)
1973
ESTIMATE: $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
Castelli Graphics, NEW YORK
Immediately after completing graduate school in 1971, Lewis Baltz was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Leo Castelli Gallery, better known for Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art than for photography. That exhibition, known as "Tract Houses," was followed by "Public Spaces." A third show became the book, THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, published by Castelli in 1974, and now considered a landmark in the history of photographic books. The following year Baltz was included in the important "New Topographics" exhibition at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
Profoundly influenced by the work of Ed Ruscha, Baltz also applied a cool approach to the subject of the man-altered landscape.