© Lewis Baltz
Beginning in 1965, but especially in the years between 1967 and 1971, Lewis Baltz made a body of work concentrated on the dialectic between simple, regular geometric forms found in the postwar industrial landscape, and the culture that generated such forms. Stucco walls, parking lots, the sides of warehouse sheds or disused billboards baked in the steady Californian sunlight. Baltz called his works Prototypes by which he meant replicable social conventions as well as model structures of replicable manufacture.
Text by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Book design by Lewis Baltz, Bernard Fischer, Gerhard Steidl.
188 pages / 32.2 cm x 24.5 cm / Clothbound hardcover / 85 photographs / Tritone.
More info and pictures on : http://steidlville.com/books/1175-Prototype-Works.html
Vignette © Lewis Baltz.