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Lewis Baltz is an American photographer, Paris and Venice-based, and is a Professor in the School of Visual Arts, at the IUAV. He became influential as part of the "New Topography" movement of the late Seventies. Baltz realized a "counter aesthetics" by revealing with a dispassionate eye desolate landscapes and forgotten places. Baltz studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate Schoolin 1971. Currently Baltz works on information architecture day, exposing the crisis of technology. His works have been exhibited world-wide in museums such as The Museum of Modern Art Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, San Francisco MOMA, Los Angeles MOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Publications: The New Industrial Parks; San Quentin Point; Candlestick Point; Rule without Exception; Deaths in Newport; Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit.
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Lewis Baltz is a professor of conceptual photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. |
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