IP45: West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa

© Estate of Lewis Baltz

IP45: West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa

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IP45: West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa,

1974

Lewis Baltz, American, 1945–2014
x1975-244
When photographers first went on expeditions to the American West in the 1870s, the untouched landscape they captured proved a transcendental experience. One hundred years later, this very same land had become populated with commercial buildings and tract housing. For his series New Industrial Parks, Baltz devised a mode of representation that gives such rectilinear buildings and banal facades a seductive quality. By focusing on their patterned repetition, Baltz imbued these manmade structures with a similar feeling of awe.

Information

Title
IP45: West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa
Dates

1974

Maker
Lewis Baltz
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.3 x 22.9 cm. (6 x 9 in.) sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm. (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the National Endownment for the Arts, a federal agency, with an anonymous matching gift
Object Number
x1975-244
Place Depicted

North America, United States, California, Irvine

Signatures
Signed in graphite, verso lower right: Lewis Baltz 1974
Inscription
In graphite, verso lower left: IP 45 In graphite, verso left center: 4/21 Signed in graphite, verso lower right: Lewis Baltz 1974
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
earth, verticality, construction, concrete, walls, corrugating

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