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.
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.”
Lewis Baltz
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