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|   |   | Lewis BaltzText by Walead Beshty, Urs Stahel. Interview by David Campany.
Baltz was the key protagonist of the photographic movement known as the New TopographicsThis comprehensive book accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Lewis Baltz’s work following his passing in 2014. It explores the artist’s oeuvre as a complex whole of interrelated series, from his first Prototypes and the Tract Houses to Park City, San Quentin Point and Candlestick Point, through to New Sites of Technology and Venezia Marghera. The book simultaneously locates Baltz’s work in the context of photography and contemporary art since the 1970s, to fully examine his influence and legacy.
Baltz is one of the most prominent representatives of the New Topographics movement, which was seminal to the development of conceptual photography. His photo series document the impact of industrial civilization on the landscape, focusing on places outside the bounds of canonical reception: urban wastelands, abandoned industrial sites, warehouses. Baltz’s strategies reflect a deep knowledge of the history of photography and present the photographer as a teacher of seeing. Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) was born and raised in Newport Beach, California. Beyond the landmark exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Baltz’s work has been shown in about 50 solo exhibitions and featured in 17 monographs, and can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to name but a few. Steidl’s Baltz books include Candlestick Point (2011), The Prototype Works (2011) and Works – Last Edition (2015).Featured image, from the 1986-87 "Near Reno" series, is reproduced from 'Lewis Baltz.'PRAISE AND REVIEWSThe Guardian From garden cities built on contaminated ground to bland housing projects and towns devoid of landmarks, Lewis Baltz chronicled the dehumanised urban landscape of America, brick by brick. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/18/2017"Among the qualities that most attracted me to photography were its transparency (illusory, of course) and its (equally illusory) sense of being almost authorless," Lewis Baltz is quoted in Steidl's
comprehensive new overview. "The vernacular that interested me wasn't the 'snapshot aesthetic' but the vernacular of commercial photographs in a 'documentary' style, the sorts of photographs you might see in a real-estate office window: high-resolution, artless; and very distancing." Featured image is "South Wall, PlastX, 350 Lear, Costa Mesa" from Baltz's 1974 New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California series. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/19/2017"Baltz and Warhol have this in common: the principal subject of their art is the civilization where they work, and when that civilization encounters its points of invalidation, they confer to their work the dimension of a moral gesture while never having the conceit to set forth a moral." Bernard Lamarche-Vadel on Lewis Baltz. Featured image is "The Berkeley Crisis" (1968) from The Prototype Works series. continue to blog | | | SteidlISBN: 9783958295773 USD $30.00 | CAD $42.5Pub Date: 6/24/2025 Forthcoming
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