Front Cover, image source: Artphilein Library

Notes

Clothbound.
Irvine, California

Publisher Note english italian

Reedition of the seminal “The new Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California”, 1974 book.

In the late 1960s and early ’70s Baltz became fascinated by the stark, repellent, manmade landscape that was rolling over California’s then still agrarian terrain. “The New Industrial Park near Irvine, California” is the best known of his projects on the subject. With this book Baltz took his place near the center of the New Topographics movement, a newly coined term emblematic of a cool, distanced, yet critical view of the emerging man-altered landscape. The New Topographics position, detached and glacial, has since widely influenced photographic practice. In “The New Industrial Park” Lewis Baltz  deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about industrial zones in the urban landscape. By focusing his attention on the familiar, Baltz created a powerful work in his critical photographic approach to the built environment.

Riedizione del classico volume di Lewis Baltz originariamente edito nel 1974.

Alla fine degli anni ’60 e inizio ‘70 Baltz rimase affascinato dal paesaggio artificiale, forte e repellente che stava conquistando gli spazi agricoli della California. “The new Industrial Park near Irvine” è il suo più noto progetto su questa tematica. Con questo libro Baltz si è collocato al centro del movimento New Topographics, una nuova terminologia emblematica di una lettura fredda, distanziata, ma critica dell’emergente paesaggio alterato dall’uomo. La posizione New Topographics, distaccata e glaciale, ha ampiamente influenzato da allora la pratica fotografica. In “The New Industrial Park” Lewis Baltz affronta questioni culturali e filosofiche di ampio respiro sulla tematica delle zone industriali inserite in spazi urbani. Focalizzando la sua attenzione su ciò che gli è più familiare, Baltz ha creato una potente opera nell’ambito del suo approccio fotografico critico sull’ambiente edificato.

Artists’ Book

The New Industrial Park near Irvine, California

by Lewis Baltz

Publisher
Release Place Göttingen, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2001
Credits
Artist: Lewis Baltz
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-88243-318-0
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics California, Industrial Photography
Methods Photography
Language English, English
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 28.7 × 27.3 cm
Pages 104