Lewis Baltz

American, 1945 – 2014

Lewis Baltz, ‘Dana Point #2’ 1970
Dana Point #2 1970
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Biography

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. 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 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.

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Conceptual photography Minimalism New topographics

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  • Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, ‘Pitheads’ 1974

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    New topographics was a term coined by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (such as …

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