PARK CITY - Lewis Baltz, Gus Blaisdell
1st edition
"In 1978 and 1979, Lewis Baltz, one of the greatest contemporary American photographers, set out to document the construction of a booming ski resort and the development of second homes east of Salt Lake City, in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. His aim was to record the construction of Park City as an example of urbanization in the American West. When Baltz first saw the landscape around Park City, it appeared utterly chaotic, devastated by decades of abuse and neglect. Strewn with fragments of iron, glass, wood and wire - the residue of mining waste abandoned years earlier - much of the land could only support sparse vegetation. The scene evoked the consequences of cataclysmic, purposeless violence. During the two and a half years Baltz photographed Park City, the wasteland was covered with houses and commercial structures, which, ironically, only increased the impression of darkness and desolation."
Published by Artspace Press, Albuquerque, Castelli Graphics, New York, 1980
246 pages
27.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 0-9604140-0-2
1st edition
"In 1978 and 1979, Lewis Baltz, one of the greatest contemporary American photographers, set out to document the construction of a booming ski resort and the development of second homes east of Salt Lake City, in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. His aim was to record the construction of Park City as an example of urbanization in the American West. When Baltz first saw the landscape around Park City, it appeared utterly chaotic, devastated by decades of abuse and neglect. Strewn with fragments of iron, glass, wood and wire - the residue of mining waste abandoned years earlier - much of the land could only support sparse vegetation. The scene evoked the consequences of cataclysmic, purposeless violence. During the two and a half years Baltz photographed Park City, the wasteland was covered with houses and commercial structures, which, ironically, only increased the impression of darkness and desolation."
Published by Artspace Press, Albuquerque, Castelli Graphics, New York, 1980
246 pages
27.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 0-9604140-0-2
1st edition
"In 1978 and 1979, Lewis Baltz, one of the greatest contemporary American photographers, set out to document the construction of a booming ski resort and the development of second homes east of Salt Lake City, in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. His aim was to record the construction of Park City as an example of urbanization in the American West. When Baltz first saw the landscape around Park City, it appeared utterly chaotic, devastated by decades of abuse and neglect. Strewn with fragments of iron, glass, wood and wire - the residue of mining waste abandoned years earlier - much of the land could only support sparse vegetation. The scene evoked the consequences of cataclysmic, purposeless violence. During the two and a half years Baltz photographed Park City, the wasteland was covered with houses and commercial structures, which, ironically, only increased the impression of darkness and desolation."
Published by Artspace Press, Albuquerque, Castelli Graphics, New York, 1980
246 pages
27.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 0-9604140-0-2
