RONDE DE NUIT

Lewis Baltz
RONDE DE NUIT

Photographs: lewis Baltz

Text: Olivier Boissière

Publisher: Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais

24 pages

Year: 1992

ISBN: 2-904538-28-4

Price: 90 €

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 30 x 15 cm, color photographs. In very good condition other than marks on the cover. Text in French and English.

Cahier number 9 of the Transmanche Photographic Mission.

For Lewis Baltz, the virtual 'invisibility', or at the very least the banality, of the most sophisticated visible objects in the world of high technology provides an opportunity to create a fiction capable of revealing the field of reality. The exploration of the extent and limits of photographic information, which lies at the heart of his work, and the questioning of the medium itself, find particular fulfilment in this work. High technology is a decisive factor in our current environment, and at the same time as it demonstrates human technical skill, it also raises questions about our capacity for wisdom. Because innovations are outstripping our ability to think about and understand their aims, most people are unable to master them.

- Presentation from the publisher (translated from French)