Reproduced for the first time, Lewis Baltz’s earliest portfolio The Tract Houses (1971) and his preliminary forays into a minimal aesthetic, as represented in the Prototype Works (1967-76), illuminate Baltz’s drive to capture the reality of a sprawling Western ecology gone wild. Together with The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, this trilogy reveals the indelible importance of Baltz in the changing course on contemporary photography. Co-published between RAM Publications, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Stiedl Verlag, this edition includes an informative essay by curator Sheryl Conkelton, along with an introduction by Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg.
