Icon of Topography Movement, Minimalist Photographer – Lewis Baltz Does at 69

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    Icon of New Topography Movement Lewis Baltz dies at 69.

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  • NYtimes obit

    More than those of his colleagues, Mr. Baltz’s stark, geometric photographs used the language of Minimalism, the dominant mode of sculpture at the time, to convey a kind of creeping soullessness in the man-made landscape of Southern California, where he grew up.

    The camera, he said, was often a device less for communication than for a kind of existential defense. In 2009 he told an interviewer for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, “I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.”

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