Representative work by Lewis Baltz
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Artist

Lewis Baltz

1945–2014 · American

  • Claremont Graduate University
  • San Francisco Art Institute

Lewis Baltz photographed industrial parks, tract development and marginal landscapes with severe formal clarity. A key figure in the New Topographics movement, he turned the built environment of late-capitalist America into a subject of conceptual photography.

Photography; installation

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 1974The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
  • 1978–80Park City
  • 1976Maryland
  • 1986San Quentin Point
  • 1987–89Candlestick Point
  • 1989–91Sites of Technology
  • 1977Nevada
  • 1967–76Prototype Works
  • 1991Rule Without Exception
  • 1970sIndustrial Parks

Interviews & Writing

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