San Quentin Point (SIGNED)
Lewis Baltz
San Quentin Point (SIGNED)
Photographs: Robert Adams
Text: Mark Haworth-Booth
Publisher: Aperture
Pictures: 58
Year: 1986
Price: 300 €
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket and acetate, 270 x 280 mm. First edition, 1986. Black & white photographs. Text in english, german and french. In fine condition. Copy signed by Lewis Baltz and dedicated to the owner. Scarce.
I have in front of me immediate impressions of San Quentin Point : "We saw pictures of the rank vegetation characteristic of bombsites and railyards. Bedsprings or whatnot, cloth pressed into the earth as if steam-ironed, thistles spraying up regardless, nameless slimy things, rendered with the exquisiteness with which any trash can," quoth Walter Benjamin in days of yore, could and would be beautified by photography...As honesty, a dilapidated, beautiful and plentiful plant, which may be known by another name in America, flourishes especially beside English motorways, sturdy common things glinted among the bits of broken glass and broken most things at San Quentin Point. They gained stature as they multiplied...
Extract from Mark Haworth-Booth's essay
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