San Quentin Point

1985

Not on view

Baltz was included in the seminal 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Artists featured in the show examined the drastic transformations that industrialization and suburbanization had wrought on the environment. Baltz’s 1985 portfolio, San Quentin Point, focused on the detritus spread around the as-yet-undeveloped terrain of Marin County in San Francisco

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Title: San Quentin Point
Artist: Lewis Baltz (American, Newport Beach, California 1945–2014 Paris)
Date: 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver prints
Classification: Portfolios
Credit Line: Gift of Robert L. Smith, 1985-86
Object Number: 1985.1147 / 1986.1096
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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