Lewis Baltz
La Valise
1947-93
Portfolio containing 12 photographs: 9 gelatin silver prints, 2 cibachrome prints and 1 chromogenic print, printed 1993. From 7.5 x 10 cm (10 x 14.8 cm) to 16.8 x 22.8 cm (20.1 x 25.3 cm), both portrait and landscape formats. Each monogrammed, dated, editioned, consecutively numbered '1' to '12' and with archive number in felt tip pen and pencil resp. on the verso. Individually matted and together with 3 fly sheets, thereon typewritten notes on the images and on the edition as well as a text by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, in original portfolio box. Portfolio A from an edition of A-Z (+ 4 A.P., + 5 H.C.). Galerie Michèle Chomette edition, Paris.
Subjects:
Ivrine Ranch, 1968
Dana Point No. 2, 1971
Irvine Ranch, 1967
Shingle, West Vic., n.d.
Near Songhees Road, n.d.
Heartlands Sanitary Landfill No. 4, n.d.
Jury Selection, Overell Murder Trial, 1947
Kawasaki No. 24, n.d.
Kawasaki No. 11, n.d.
Mitsubishi/Vitre, 1992
Corso dei Lavaro, 1992
Video Still No. 4, 1993
Provenance
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne; private collection, Rhineland
Literature
Susanne Figner/Walter Moser (ed.), Lewis Baltz, exhib.cat. Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover i.a., Cologne 2012, with ill.