Channel Tunnel, Pas-de-Calais, France
1989–1991, printed 2006
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chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 17.7 × 26.5 cm (6 15/16 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 28.1 × 35.5 cm (11 1/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2020.29.107.27
Art Historical Context
Lewis Baltz's *Channel Tunnel, Pas-de-Calais,* (1989–1991, printed 2006) the stark industrial landscape surrounding the construction of the historic Channel Tunnel in northern France. A pioneering photographer associated with the New Topographics movement of the 1970s, Baltz specialized in objective, almost clinical depictions of suburban sprawl, factories, and man-made environments, revealing their quiet beauty amid desolation. Here, his lens turns to the massive earthworks and machinery of the Eurotunnel project, a feat of modern engineering linking England and France beneath the English Cha...
About the Artist
Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) was born on September 12 in Newport Beach, California, where he developed an early passion for photography, beginning seriously at age 12. His father passed away when he was 11, an event that marked his childhood. Baltz pursued formal training at Monterey Peninsula College in 1967, followed by a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and an MFA from Claremont Grad...