| Dates: | 1945, 12 September - | | Born: | US, CA, Newport Beach | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
His works on industrial parks in southern California became one of the key series in a group of photographers that became known as the ‘New Topographics‘.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Baltz’s New Topographics approach is emblemized in The New Industrial Parks near Irvine California (1974), a detached, minimalist social critique of the desolate sites of the contemporary urban/suburban landscape. Utilizing formalism to order and repossess a bland, mundane subject, his sophisticated, unemotional, conceptually based distancing strategy symbolically communicates an ever-present, dehumanized, placeless corporate warehouse sense of place that was rolling over California’s then still-agrarian terrain.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Baltz, Lewis, 1974, The New Industrial Parks near Irvine California [Δ]
Rian, J., 2001, Lewis Baltz, (New York: Phaidon Press) [Δ]
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
Photographic collections are a useful means of examining large numbers of photographs by a single photographer on-line.
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