Carbon

Photographs of railroads and the landscapes they traverse, taken during a four month journey by train and by car through the U.S.A in 1989 by this German artist. Many photos are superimposed with the names of animals or of the names of the Native Americans that used to live on these spots. 

• New York/Los Angeles, Lothar Baumgarten and Pentti Kouri/The Museum of Contemporary Arts, 1991
• This copy complete with a loose staple-bound text booklet by Lothar
  Baumgarten and Michael Oppitz
• First edition of 1 750 copies. 133 plates
• Oblong folio (310 x 390 mm.) 144 pp
• Cloth-covered boards and an illustrated
  dust jacket
• Lit. : Roth, The Book of 101
  Books, pp. 268-271, Auer, 802 photo books from the M. + M. Auer collection, n° 689. Book
• Book and text booklet have both been signed by Lothar BAUMGARTEN. Artist’s book