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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2010
SELECTED BY
Morten Andersen
Rinko Kawauchi
Ramón Reverté
Elizabeth Avedon
Hester Keijser
Michael Schmelling
Alexa Becker
Anne Kelly
George Slade
Bruno Ceschel
Debra Klomp Ching
Alec Soth
Jörg M. Colberg
Loring Knoblauch
Peter Sutherland
Marco Delogu
Larissa Leclair
Willem van Zoetendaal
Antone Dolezal
Melanie McWhorter
Laurence Vecten
John Gossage
Colin Pantall
Fabrice Wagner
Todd Hido
Martin Parr
Timothy Prus & Ed Jones
Selected by:
  • Marco Delogu
  • John Gossage
Works.
Photographs by Lewis Baltz.
Steidl.

“Baltz’s work exemplifies the ways in which photography, beginning some four decades ago, started to loose the bonds of its isolation within its own segregated history and aesthetics and began to take its place as an equal among other media.” Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art

Works celebrates Lewis Baltz’s indelible influence on the development of contemporary photography. Comprising ten volumes in a slipcase, Works contains reissues of Baltz’s most significant books, many of which are now collectible rarities, as well as four as yet unpublished projects. Each of the books has been crafted in close collaboration with Baltz, who oversaw each stage of production at Steidl. From scanning of the vintage prints, to book design, selection of paper and binding materials, pre-press and printing, Baltz has shaped the form and aesthetic of these publications. Printed in luminous quadrotone, Works is a testament to the importance of the book as a primary medium in Baltz’s practice.

Works contains:
The Prototype Works, 1967–76. Text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. 188 pages
The Tract Houses, 1971. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg. Text by Sheryl Conkelton. 60 pages
The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, 1974. 108 pages
Maryland, 1976. Text by Jane Livingston. 56 pages
Nevada, 1977. Text by Robert Sobieszek. 44 pages
Park City, 1980. Text by Hubertus von Amelunxen. 216 pages
San Quentin Point, 1986. 120 pages
Near Reno, 1986. 32 pages
Continuous Fire Polar Circle, 1986. 20 pages
Sites of Technology, 1989–91. Text by Antonello Frongia. 120 pages

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