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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. |
| Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He received
several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts (1973, 1977), the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship (1977), US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980), and Charles Brett Memorial Award (1991). In 2002 Lewis Baltz
became a Professor for Photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. Baltz is now living in Paris and Milano. |
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