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PHOTOGRAPHS
Baltz, Lewis
U.S. (1945 - 2014)
Between West Sidewinder Drive and State Highway 248, Looking North
1979
Gelatin silver print
6 7/16 x 9 9/16 in. (16.4 x 24.3 cm) image size; 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) sheet size
Monsen Study Collection of Photography, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen
FA 89.27

Another New Topographics photographer, Lewis Baltz creates minimalist images out of loaded subject matter. Echoing the romance of the American West captured more than a century ago, Baltz reconstructs panoramic views with commonplace materials: bulldozed heaps of earth, cheap subdivision housing materials, and the tracks of technological beasts. By reappropriating such ordinary materials into beautiful artistic constructions, Baltz acknowledges the inevitable march of progress, recording the new environments as they evolve.

-- Label copy for Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, February 10 to August 20, 2000.

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