Lewis Baltz
14 Sep - 04 Nov 2012
Lewis Baltz
Continous Fire Polar Circle, 1986
Silver gelatin print
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, permanent loan
© Lewis Baltz
Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Continous Fire Polar Circle, 1986
Silver gelatin print
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, permanent loan
© Lewis Baltz
Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
LEWIS BALTZ
14 September – 04 November 2012
Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, died 2014 in Paris) is one of the most important international representatives of conceptual photography. Baltz worked at the US-American westcoast during the in the 1970s and was the first artist working with photography to be included in the program of the prestigious Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. With an objective glance, he turned his camera on the American life and its changes through the boom of the postwar period: Newly created industrial plants, burgeoning suburbs and the associated social impacts are the focus of his serial works. His works focus on series of images that allow him to shed light on different facets of a topic and to show the viewer no single iconic image, but the depiction of movement and change. The series are also characterized by a minimalist style of composition and often contain only a few architectural elements, so they become almost abstract photographic work.
14 September – 04 November 2012
Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, died 2014 in Paris) is one of the most important international representatives of conceptual photography. Baltz worked at the US-American westcoast during the in the 1970s and was the first artist working with photography to be included in the program of the prestigious Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. With an objective glance, he turned his camera on the American life and its changes through the boom of the postwar period: Newly created industrial plants, burgeoning suburbs and the associated social impacts are the focus of his serial works. His works focus on series of images that allow him to shed light on different facets of a topic and to show the viewer no single iconic image, but the depiction of movement and change. The series are also characterized by a minimalist style of composition and often contain only a few architectural elements, so they become almost abstract photographic work.