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kestnergesellschaft presents works by photographer Lewis Baltz

kestnergesellschaft presents works by the legendary American photographer Lewis Baltz in an exhibition on view friday, september 14, 2012 – sunday, november 4, 2012.


Lewis Baltz, National Centre for Meterological Research, Grenoble, 1989-1991. Aus der Serie 89/91 Sites of Technology © Lewis Baltz, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln

Baltz, born 1945 in Newport Beach, California, arrived on the scene with photos that launched him as an essential groundbreaker on the way to (new) art photography. At the age of 26 with “Tract Houses”, Baltz had his first solo exhibition at the famous New York gallery of Leo Castelli, and remained within its program till the early 1990s. Baltz (as well as Hilla and Bernd Becher) took part in the 1975 epochal exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape”.


Lewis Baltz Unoccupied office, Mitsubishi, Vitre (FR), 1989-91. From the series Sites of Technology. C-Print, Diasec© Lewis Baltz. Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln.

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