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Background information, content
"New York curator Marvin HEIFERMAN characterized Lewis BALTZ's landscape photography as 'topography of the emptiness of random, damaged, remote places.' The photographs in the 1989 series in the San Francisco Bay photo book 'Candlestick Point' contained nothing we'd rather not see. Traces of engineered land development, drainage channels, dams. The photographic record of development at 'Candlestick Point' combines sociological and analytical rigor, draws heavily on the tradition of land art, and belatedly pays tribute to its crucial influence on conceptual art since the 1970s.
Additional information
The photography book 'Candlestick Point' was first published in 1989 and has been unavailable for decades, except as an expensive collector's item on the secondary photography book market." (freely translated publisher's text, © Steidl Verlag, 2011)
About US-american photographer Lewis BALTZ (1945-2014)
Photo books by and with works by Lewis BALTZ
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Wolfgang Scheppe
- Book design
- Bernard FISCHER
- Format
- Re-edit 2011, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 12 color & 72 tritone ills., text language: English