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[[File:Lewis baltz N°3-1.jpg|thumb|Lewis Baltz (1998) in [[Jean Nouvel]]'s Amat hotel.]]
'''Lewis "Duke" Baltz''' (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Jock |date=January 28, 2015 |title=Jock Reynolds on Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) |url=https://www.artforum.com/passages/jock-reynolds-on-lewis-baltz-1945-2014-49965 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the [[New Topographics]] movement of the late 1970s.<ref name="egs">[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ Lewis Baltz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103405/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ |date=May 27, 2010 }} Faculty Website at [[European Graduate School]].</ref> His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "[[American Dream]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |date=2014-12-04 |title=Lewis Baltz obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/04/lewis-baltz |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Icon of New Topography movement Lewis Baltz dies at 69 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2014/11/24/icon-of-new-topography-movement-lewis-baltz-dies-at-69/ |website=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chawkins |first=Steve |date=2014-11-27 |title=Lewis Baltz dies at 69; photographer of stark, postmodern isolation |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lewis-baltz-20141127-story.html |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Hal |date=December 1978 |title=Hal Fischer on Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197810/lewis-baltz-68187 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
'''Lewis "Duke" Baltz''' (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Jock |date=January 28, 2015 |title=Jock Reynolds on Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) |url=https://www.artforum.com/passages/jock-reynolds-on-lewis-baltz-1945-2014-49965 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the [[New Topographics]] movement of the late 1970s.<ref name="egs">[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ Lewis Baltz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103405/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ |date=May 27, 2010 }} Faculty Website at [[European Graduate School]].</ref> His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "[[American Dream]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |date=2014-12-04 |title=Lewis Baltz obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/04/lewis-baltz |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Icon of New Topography movement Lewis Baltz dies at 69 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2014/11/24/icon-of-new-topography-movement-lewis-baltz-dies-at-69/ |website=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chawkins |first=Steve |date=2014-11-27 |title=Lewis Baltz dies at 69; photographer of stark, postmodern isolation |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lewis-baltz-20141127-story.html |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Hal |date=December 1978 |title=Hal Fischer on Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197810/lewis-baltz-68187 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=Artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref>


He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to ''L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui''.
He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to ''L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui''.


Baltz's work is held in the collections of the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Tate Modern]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Whitney Museum|Whitney Museum of American Art]],<ref name="whitney">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://whitney.org/artists/3944 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> [[Art Institute of Chicago]],<ref name="artic">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/33521/lewis-baltz |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}</ref> [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]<ref name=":2" /> and [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].<ref name=":1" />
Baltz's work is held in the collections of the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Tate Modern]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Whitney Museum]] of American Art,<ref name="whitney">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://whitney.org/artists/3944 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> [[Art Institute of Chicago]],<ref name="artic">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/33521/lewis-baltz |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}</ref> [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]],<ref name=":2" /> and [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].<ref name=":1" />


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Lewis Baltz was born on September 12, 1945 in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=2014-11-26 |title=Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/arts/design/lewis-baltz-photographer-of-american-landscapes-dies-at-69.html |access-date=2022-08-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His father died when he was age 11.<ref name=":1" />
Lewis Baltz was born on September 12, 1945, in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=2014-11-26 |title=Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/arts/design/lewis-baltz-photographer-of-american-landscapes-dies-at-69.html |access-date=2022-08-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His father died when he was age 11.<ref name=":1" />


Baltz graduated with a BFA degree in [[Fine Arts]] from [[San Francisco Art Institute]] in 1969; and held a [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree from [[Claremont Graduate School]] (now Claremont Graduate University).<ref name="rian">{{Citation|publisher = Phaidon|isbn = 0-7148-4039-4|ol = 3579790M|location = London|title = Lewis Baltz|author = Jeff Rian|date = 2001|oclc = 47677835|id = 0714840394}}</ref>
Baltz attended [[Monterey Peninsula College]] in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 17, 2009 |title=Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lewis-baltz-15758 |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref> He later graduated with a BFA degree in [[fine arts]] from [[San Francisco Art Institute]] in 1969; and held a [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree from [[Claremont Graduate School]] (now Claremont Graduate University).<ref name="rian">{{Citation|publisher = Phaidon|isbn = 0-7148-4039-4|ol = 3579790M|location = London|title = Lewis Baltz|author = Jeff Rian|date = 2001|oclc = 47677835|id = 0714840394}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
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He published several books of his work including ''Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht,'' with Slavica Perkovic (Scalo, 1986). Other photographic series, including ''Sites of Technology'' (1989–92), depict the clinical, pristine interiors of hi-tech industries and government research centres, principally in France and Japan. In 1995, the story ''Deaths in Newport'' was produced as a book and [[CD-ROM]]. Baltz also produced a number of video works.
He published several books of his work including ''Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht,'' with Slavica Perkovic (Scalo, 1986). Other photographic series, including ''Sites of Technology'' (1989–92), depict the clinical, pristine interiors of hi-tech industries and government research centres, principally in France and Japan. In 1995, the story ''Deaths in Newport'' was produced as a book and [[CD-ROM]]. Baltz also produced a number of video works.


Baltz taught at various institutions, including [[Claremont Graduate University|Claremont Graduate School]], [[California Institute of the Arts]] (CalArts), [[University of California, Riverside]] (UC Riverside), [[California State University, San Bernardino]], and the [[Università Iuav di Venezia|IUAV University in Venice]], Italy, where in 2006 he co-founded the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://bampfa.org/program/lewis-baltz-matrix-69 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=MATRIX 69, BAMPFA}}</ref><ref name="ohagan-guardian-obituary" />
Baltz taught at various institutions, including [[Claremont Graduate University|Claremont Graduate School]], [[California Institute of the Arts]] (CalArts), [[University of California, Riverside]] (UC Riverside), [[California State University, San Bernardino]], and the [[Università Iuav di Venezia|IUAV University in Venice]], Italy, where in 2006 he co-founded [[Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation|the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Lewis Baltz |url=https://bampfa.org/program/lewis-baltz-matrix-69 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=MATRIX 69, BAMPFA}}</ref><ref name="ohagan-guardian-obituary" />


== End of life, death and legacy ==
== End of life, death and legacy ==
In 2002, Baltz became a Professor for Photography at the [[European Graduate School]] in [[Saas-Fee, Switzerland]].<ref name="egs" /> He lived his last years between [[Paris]] and [[Venice]]. Baltz died on November 22, 2014 in Paris at the age of 69 following a long illness.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-obituary">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/04/lewis-baltz | date = December 4, 2014 | access-date = October 22, 2015 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | authorlink = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | work = [[The Guardian]] | title = Lewis Baltz obituary}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
In 2002, Baltz became a professor for photography at the [[European Graduate School]] in [[Saas-Fee, Switzerland]].<ref name="egs" /> He lived his last years between [[Paris]] and [[Venice]]. Baltz died on November 22, 2014, in Paris at the age of 69 following a long illness.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-obituary">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/04/lewis-baltz | date = December 4, 2014 | access-date = October 22, 2015 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | authorlink = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | work = [[The Guardian]] | title = Lewis Baltz obituary}}</ref><ref name=":1" />


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
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Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (1998) in Jean Nouvel's Amat hotel
Born(1945-09-12)September 12, 1945
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
DiedNovember 22, 2014(2014-11-22) (aged 69)[1]
Paris, France
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute
Claremont Graduate School
Occupation(s)Visual artist, photographer, educator
Known forNew Topography

Lewis "Duke" Baltz (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014)[2] was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s.[3] His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".[4][5][6][7]

He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.

Baltz's work is held in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[8] Metropolitan Museum of Art,[9] Tate Modern,[8] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[8] Whitney Museum of American Art,[10] Art Institute of Chicago,[11] Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,[9] Philadelphia Museum of Art,[9] and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[8]

Early life and education

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Lewis Baltz was born on September 12, 1945, in Newport Beach, California.[8] His father died when he was age 11.[8]

Baltz attended Monterey Peninsula College in 1967.[12] He later graduated with a BFA degree in fine arts from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969; and held a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University).[13]

Career

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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.[13] His pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings. His minimalistic photographs in the trilogy Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies, and Politics of Bacteria, picture the void of the other.[vague][14] In 1974 he captured the anonymity and the relationships between inhabitation, settlement and anonymity in The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California (1974).

His books and exhibitions, his "topographic work",[3] such as The New Industrial Parks,[7] Nevada, San Quentin Point, Candlestick Point, expose the crisis of technology and define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs.[vague][15] His work Candlestick Point is made of 84 photographs documenting a public space near Candlestick Park, ruined by natural detritus and human intervention.[16]

Baltz moved to Europe in the late 1980s and started to use large colored prints.[8]

He published several books of his work including Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic (Scalo, 1986). Other photographic series, including Sites of Technology (1989–92), depict the clinical, pristine interiors of hi-tech industries and government research centres, principally in France and Japan. In 1995, the story Deaths in Newport was produced as a book and CD-ROM. Baltz also produced a number of video works.

Baltz taught at various institutions, including Claremont Graduate School, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), California State University, San Bernardino, and the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, where in 2006 he co-founded the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation.[9][17]

End of life, death and legacy

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In 2002, Baltz became a professor for photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[3] He lived his last years between Paris and Venice. Baltz died on November 22, 2014, in Paris at the age of 69 following a long illness.[17][8]

Awards

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He received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977),[9] the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977),[13] US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980),[9] and Charles Brett Memorial Award (1991).

Publications

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  • Landscape: Theory, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter, Carol Digrappa and Robert Adams, 1980 ISBN 0-912810-27-0
  • The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, Lewis Baltz and Adam Weinburg, 2001 ISBN 0-9630785-6-9
  • The Deaths in Newport, onestar press, 2002
  • The Tract Houses: Die Siedlungshauser (English and German Edition), Lewis Baltz, 2005 ISBN 0-9703860-4-4
  • The Prototype Works, Lewis Baltz, 2010 ISBN 3-86521-763-X
  • Mario Pfeifer: Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, Lewis Baltz, Mario Pfeifer, Vanessa Joan Mueller, 2011 ISBN 1-934105-29-5
  • Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Lewis Baltz, 2011 ISBN 3-86930-109-0
  • Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception / Only Exceptions, Lewis Baltz, 2012 ISBN 3-86930-110-4
  • Lewis Baltz: Texts., Lewis Baltz, 2012 ISBN 3-86930-436-7
  • Lewis Baltz, Lewis Baltz, 2017 ISBN 3-95829-279-8

Collections

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Baltz's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

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  1. ^ Crowder, Nicole (November 24, 2014). "Icon of New Topography movement Lewis Baltz dies at 69". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Jock (January 28, 2015). "Jock Reynolds on Lewis Baltz (1945–2014)". Artforum.com. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Lewis Baltz Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Faculty Website at European Graduate School.
  4. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (December 4, 2014). "Lewis Baltz obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  5. ^ "Icon of New Topography movement Lewis Baltz dies at 69". Washington Post. November 24, 2014.
  6. ^ Chawkins, Steve (November 27, 2014). "Lewis Baltz dies at 69; photographer of stark, postmodern isolation". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  7. ^ a b Fischer, Hal (December 1978). "Hal Fischer on Lewis Baltz". Artforum.com. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Kennedy, Randy (November 26, 2014). "Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Lewis Baltz". MATRIX 69, BAMPFA. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Lewis Baltz". whitney.org. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Lewis Baltz". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  12. ^ "Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. November 17, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  13. ^ a b c Jeff Rian (2001), Lewis Baltz, London: Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4039-4, OCLC 47677835, OL 3579790M, 0714840394
  14. ^ Tate. "Lewis Baltz American, 1945 – 2014". Tate. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
  15. ^ "Lewis Baltz". www.moca.org. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
  16. ^ "Lewis Baltz | Candlestick Point". whitney.org. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
  17. ^ a b O'Hagan, Sean (December 4, 2014). "Lewis Baltz obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
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