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His work is focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz's images describe the architecture of the human landscape: offices, factories and parking lots. His pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings. His minimalistic photographs in
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movement of the late 1970s. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "
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He received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977), the
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is made of 84 photographs documenting a public space near Candlestick Park, ruined by natural detritus and human intervention.
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Mario Pfeifer: Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974
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Baltz moved to Europe in the late 1980s and started to use large colored prints.
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with Slavica Perkovic (Scalo, 1986). Other photographic series, including
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The Tract Houses: Die Siedlungshauser (English and German Edition)
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Baltz's work is held in the following permanent collections:
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His books and exhibitions, his "topographic work", such as
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In 2002, Baltz became a professor for photography at the
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He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to
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Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz, 2009 Nov. 15–17
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Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception / Only Exceptions
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the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation
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Baltz also produced a number of video works. 285:Lewis Baltz was born on September 12, 1945, in 241:Baltz's work is held in the collections of the 8: 345:Nevada, San Quentin Point, Candlestick Point 1280:University of California, Riverside faculty 390:California State University, San Bernardino 1235:Academic staff of European Graduate School 921: 919: 673:"Jock Reynolds on Lewis Baltz (1945–2014)" 133: 122: 980:"Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz" 434:John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 111:Learn how and when to remove this message 1275:California Institute of the Arts faculty 1182:. (Biography, bibliography and articles) 949: 947: 1187:George Eastman House Lewis Baltz Series 1005: 1003: 1001: 634: 465:, Lewis Baltz and Adam Weinburg, 2001 312:(now Claremont Graduate University). 289:. His father died when he was age 11. 842: 840: 769:Chawkins, Steve (November 27, 2014). 697: 695: 693: 642:Crowder, Nicole (November 24, 2014). 396:, Italy, where in 2006 he co-founded 204:Visual artist, photographer, educator 7: 1245:Claremont Graduate University alumni 893: 891: 889: 887: 885: 883: 881: 879: 877: 847:Kennedy, Randy (November 26, 2014). 838: 836: 834: 832: 830: 828: 826: 824: 822: 820: 793: 791: 613:Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 359:Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, 267:Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 49:adding citations to reliable sources 1270:American expatriates in Switzerland 1255:21st-century American photographers 1250:20th-century American photographers 1053:"Lewis Baltz American, 1945 – 2014" 386:University of California, Riverside 1240:San Francisco Art Institute alumni 1199:Lewis Baltz notebooks and ephemera 725:O'Hagan, Sean (December 4, 2014). 623:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 416:. He lived his last years between 275:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 14: 1195:, at the Getty Research Institute 1103:"Lewis Baltz | Candlestick Point" 598:Los Angeles County Museum of Art 382:California Institute of the Arts 255:Los Angeles County Museum of Art 25: 36:needs additional citations for 1260:New Topographics photographers 798:Fischer, Hal (December 1978). 603:Whitney Museum of American Art 521:Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point 1: 1230:Photographers from California 1201:, at Getty Research Institute 404:End of life, death and legacy 323:Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies, 959:The Art Institute of Chicago 800:"Hal Fischer on Lewis Baltz" 583:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 243:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 236:L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 369:was produced as a book and 302:San Francisco Art Institute 191:San Francisco Art Institute 1296: 618:Philadelphia Museum of Art 588:Metropolitan Museum of Art 294:Monterey Peninsula College 271:Philadelphia Museum of Art 247:Metropolitan Museum of Art 394:IUAV University in Venice 378:Claremont Graduate School 342:The New Industrial Parks, 310:Claremont Graduate School 287:Newport Beach, California 195:Claremont Graduate School 163:Newport Beach, California 132: 1180:European Graduate School 1169:Archives of American Art 713:European Graduate School 608:Art Institute of Chicago 440:Memorial Award (1991). 410:European Graduate School 281:Early life and education 263:Art Institute of Chicago 1265:Pomona College faculty 1135:"Lewis Baltz obituary" 727:"Lewis Baltz obituary" 139:Lewis Baltz (1998) in 1225:Photography academics 1167:from the Smithsonian 707:May 27, 2010, at the 478:, onestar press, 2002 476:The Deaths in Newport 414:Saas-Fee, Switzerland 327:Politics of Bacteria, 16:American photographer 1133:(December 4, 2014). 758:. 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