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Kawasaki 1A and 1B
1989
60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Lewis Baltz (Newport Beach, California, 1945 - , Paris, France)
Skybridge, March 2 - June 22, 2015, San José Museum of Art.
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, July 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007, San José Museum of Art.
Collection Highlights, November 2, 2002 - September 12, 2004, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 22 -September 12, 1999, Second floor, New Wing, San José Museum of Art.
Photographic Highlights from the Permanent Collection, August 12, 1998 - January 3, 1999, Focus Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
The photographer Lewis Baltz is deeply interested in manmade environments, yet the human subject rarely appears in his works. Instead, Baltz focuses on the qualities of anonymity and silence in the created environment. Kawasaki 1A and 1B presents a depersonalized, sterile interior dominated relentlessly by technology. This diptych is part of the larger series “Sites of Technology,” which marks an important shift to large scale and color in Baltz’s photography.
Kawasaki 1A and 1B is an Artificial Intelligence clean room at a Kawasaki plant in Japan. To take these images in the dust-free interior, Baltz mimicked employee protocols and wore the requisite full clean suit. In the photograph, the orange glow reflects the uncorrected sodium lighting necessary to maintaining a clean room. In the actual space, the human eye adjusts and eventually corrects the monochromatic interior. By choosing this subject, Baltz urges the viewer to consider the effects such conditions may have on human subjects and why so little attention is paid to the quality of the environments people have created for themselves. [MvDL 3/10/15]
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Kawasaki 1A and 1B
Photograph
198960 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Lewis Baltz (Newport Beach, California, 1945 - , Paris, France)
Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Silver dye bleach print on paper
Credit Line: Gift of Anonymous
Accession Number: 1997.14.01-.02
Exhibition
Conversion: Art and Engineering, June 20, 2018 – May 19, 2019, Koret Gallery, San José Museum of Art.Skybridge, March 2 - June 22, 2015, San José Museum of Art.
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, July 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007, San José Museum of Art.
Collection Highlights, November 2, 2002 - September 12, 2004, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 22 -September 12, 1999, Second floor, New Wing, San José Museum of Art.
Photographic Highlights from the Permanent Collection, August 12, 1998 - January 3, 1999, Focus Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
SJMA Label Text
The photographer Lewis Baltz is deeply interested in manmade environments, yet the human subject rarely appears in his works. Instead, Baltz focuses on the qualities of anonymity and silence in the created environment. Kawasaki 1A and 1B presents a depersonalized, sterile interior dominated relentlessly by technology. This diptych is part of the larger series “Sites of Technology,” which marks an important shift to large scale and color in Baltz’s photography.
Kawasaki 1A and 1B is an Artificial Intelligence clean room at a Kawasaki plant in Japan. To take these images in the dust-free interior, Baltz mimicked employee protocols and wore the requisite full clean suit. In the photograph, the orange glow reflects the uncorrected sodium lighting necessary to maintaining a clean room. In the actual space, the human eye adjusts and eventually corrects the monochromatic interior. By choosing this subject, Baltz urges the viewer to consider the effects such conditions may have on human subjects and why so little attention is paid to the quality of the environments people have created for themselves. [MvDL 3/10/15]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions: - Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection , 5/22/1999 - 9/12/1999
Dimensions
- Frame (each) Dimensions: 60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
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