This is the long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltz’s writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his critical writing for
magazines such as Art in America, the Times Literary Supplement, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, and Purple. The book
includes Baltz’s texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden,
Thomas Ruff, Barry Le Va, Jeff Wall, Félix González-Torres, John McLaughlin, Slavica Perkovic and Krzysztof Wodiczko,
among others. This important publication gives Baltz’s literary output the standing it deserves and offers a unique insight
into some of history’s leading photographers.
Born in 1945 in Newport Beach, California, Lewis Baltz is a defining photographer of the last half-century. After studying
at the San Francisco Art Institute and Claremont Graduate School, Baltz came to prominence with the New
Topographics movement of the 1970s. His awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and the Charles Pratt Memorial
Award, and his work is held in most major museum collections. Baltz’s books with Steidl include 89–91, Sites of
Technology (2007), WORKS (2010), The Prototype Works (2011) and Candlestick Point (2011).
Texts
von Lewis Baltz
