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'''Lewis Baltz''' (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014) was a visual artist and photographer who became 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 work has been published in a number of books, presented in numerous exhibitions, and appeared in museums such as the [[Museum of Modern Art, Paris]], Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]] and [[Whitney Museum of American Art|The Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to ''L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui''.
'''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''.
==Life and work==
Born in [[Newport Beach, California]], Baltz graduated with a BFA in [[Fine Arts]] from [[San Francisco Art Institute]] in 1969 and held a Master of Fine Arts degree from [[Claremont Graduate School]].<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> He received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977), the [[Guggenheim Fellowships|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship]] (1977),<ref name="rian" /> US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980) and [[Charles Brett]] Memorial Award (1991). 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]].


==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" />

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>

== Career ==
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.<ref name="rian" /> 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|date=January 2011}} In 1974 he captured the anonymity and the relationships between inhabitation, settlement and anonymity in ''The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California'' (1974).
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.<ref name="rian" /> 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|date=January 2011}} In 1974 he captured the anonymity and the relationships between inhabitation, settlement and anonymity in ''The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California'' (1974).

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His books and exhibitions, his "topographic work",<ref name="egs" /> such as ''The New Industrial Parks,''<ref name=":0" /> ''Nevada, San Quentin Point, Candlestick Point'' (84 photographs documenting a public space near Candlestick Park, ruined by natural detritus and human intervention), expose the crisis of technology and define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs.{{vague|date=January 2011}}{{citation needed|date=January 2011}}


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

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His books and exhibitions, his "topographic work",<ref name="egs"/> such as ''The New Industrial Parks, Nevada, San Quentin Point, Candlestick Point'' (84 photographs documenting a public space near Candlestick Park, ruined by natural detritus and human intervention), expose the crisis of technology and define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs.{{vague|date=January 2011}}{{citation needed|date=January 2011}}


In 1995, the story ''Deaths in Newport'' was produced as a book and [[CD-ROM]]. Baltz also produced a number of video works.
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), and [[University of California, Riverside]] (UC Riverside).<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>
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Baltz died on November 22, 2014 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>

== 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]].<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" />

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

== Awards ==
He received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977),<ref name=":2" /> the [[Guggenheim Fellowships|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship]] (1977),<ref name="rian" /> US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980),<ref name=":2" /> and [[Charles Brett]] Memorial Award (1991).


==Publications==
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lewis-baltz-15758 Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz, 2009 Nov. 15–17] from the Smithsonian [[Archives of American Art]]
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/arts/design/lewis-baltz-photographer-of-american-landscapes-dies-at-69.html?_r=0 "Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69," by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, Nov. 25, 2014]
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103405/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ Lewis Baltz]'' Faculty website at [[European Graduate School]]. (Biography, bibliography and articles)
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103405/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/lewis-baltz/biography/ Lewis Baltz]'' Faculty website at [[European Graduate School]]. (Biography, bibliography and articles)
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20020616103938/http://www.geh.org/ar/strip87/htmlsrc2/baltz_sld00001.html George Eastman House Lewis Baltz Series]''
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20020616103938/http://www.geh.org/ar/strip87/htmlsrc2/baltz_sld00001.html George Eastman House Lewis Baltz Series]''
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*[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lewis-baltz-15758 Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz, 2009 Nov. 15–17] from the Smithsonian [[Archives of American Art]]
*[[hdl:10020/cifa2013m31|Lewis Baltz Archive]], at the Getty Research Institute
*[[hdl:10020/cifa2013m31|Lewis Baltz Archive]], at the Getty Research Institute
*[[hdl:10020/cifa2015m27|Lewis Baltz notebooks and ephemera]], at Getty Research Institute
*[[hdl:10020/cifa2015m27|Lewis Baltz notebooks and ephemera]], at Getty Research Institute

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Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz 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.

Early life and education

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

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).[9]

Career

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.[9] 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] 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 (84 photographs documenting a public space near Candlestick Park, ruined by natural detritus and human intervention), expose the crisis of technology and define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs.[vague][citation needed]

Baltz moved to Europe in the late 1980s and started to use large colored prints. 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), and University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside).[10]

End of life, death and legacy

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.[11][8]

His work is included in public museum collections, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[8] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the Tate Modern,[8] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[8] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[12] the Art Institute of Chicago,[13] the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,[10] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[10] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[8]

Awards

He received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977),[10] the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977),[9] US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980),[10] and Charles Brett Memorial Award (1991).

Publications

  • 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

References

  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 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 Jeff Rian (2001), Lewis Baltz, London: Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4039-4, OCLC 47677835, OL 3579790M, 0714840394
  10. ^ a b c d e f "Lewis Baltz". MATRIX 69, BAMPFA. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  11. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (December 4, 2014). "Lewis Baltz obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  12. ^ "Lewis Baltz". whitney.org. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  13. ^ "Lewis Baltz". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
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