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Lewis Baltz

Reno - Sparks, Looking South, 1977

Description

Maker

  • Lewis Baltz, 1945 - 2014, American

Title

Reno - Sparks, Looking South

Year

1977

Medium

Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gelatin silver print

Supports

  • Agfa paper

Signature / Inscription / Marks

On verso, in graphite, "N1" (LL corner), "26/40" (bottom center), signed by artist and dated "1977" (LR corner).

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift from the Collection of Joe Deal and Betsy Ruppa

Object Number

2010.82.35.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

In the portfoio, Nevada, of which this image is a part, Lewis Baltz alternates unbuilt views with home construction, trailer parks, and roads in a documentation of a rapidly changing landscape in the desert valleys surrounding Reno, an area he once described as “landscapeas-real-estate.” Baltz developed projects as portfolios, believing that a single photograph cannot capture a complete portrait of a place. In Baltz’s series, a multifaceted, occasionally contradictory image of Nevada emerges through the accumulation of photographs.

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