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| Lewis Baltz snippet |
| His entire work is focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography,
searching beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz images describe
the architecture of the human landscape, offices, factories, and parking
lots. His pictures are the reflection of control and power. |
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| Lewis Baltz |
| Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual
artist, philosopher, and well known photographer who became an icon of
the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. |
| His entire work is focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography,
searching beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz images describe
the architecture of the human landscape, offices, factories, and parking
lots. 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, in 1974 he captured the anonymity and the relationships
between inhabitation, settlement, and anonymity in The New Industrial
Parks near Irvine, California (1974). He moved to Europe in the late 1980s and started to use large
coloured prints. |
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