1. Lewis "Duke" Baltz was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator.
15 Facts About Lewis Baltz
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Lewis Baltz was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s.
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Lewis Baltz's best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".
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Lewis Baltz wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.
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Lewis Baltz was born on September 12,1945, in Newport Beach, California.
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Lewis Baltz later graduated with a BFA degree in fine arts from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969; and held a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School.
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Lewis Baltz's work is focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction.
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Lewis Baltz's pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings.
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Lewis Baltz moved to Europe in the late 1980s and started to use large colored prints.
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Lewis Baltz published several books of his work including Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic.
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Lewis Baltz taught at various institutions, including Claremont Graduate School, California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Riverside, California State University, San Bernardino, and the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, where in 2006 he co-founded the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation.
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In 2002, Lewis Baltz became a professor for photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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Lewis Baltz lived his last years between Paris and Venice.
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Lewis Baltz died on November 22,2014, in Paris at the age of 69 following a long illness.
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Lewis Baltz received several scholarships and awards including a scholarship from the National Endowment For the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship, and Charles Brett Memorial Award.