Looking Southwest from State Highway 248, 0.1 Mile East of Buffalo Bill Drive
1979
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.25 × 24.13 cm (6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joshua P. Smith)
Accession Number
2015.19.4377
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the National Gallery of Art, prepare to confront the stark realities of American suburbia through *Looking Southwest from State Highway , 0.1 Mile East of Buffalo Bill Drive (1979), a gelatin silver print by Lewisz. Captured with pinpoint precision—down to 0.1 mile from Buffalo Bill Drive—this photograph exemplifies Baltz's documentary approach to the transforming Western landscape during the late 1970s, a time of rapid suburban and industrial expansion. Baltz, a leading figure in the New Topographics movement, rejected romanticized views of nature, instead presenting deadpan imag...
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...