Lewis Baltz, 1945-2014

[JimMcClain]

Excerpt:

Mr. Baltz was one of a group of photographers - including Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, Joe Deal, Nicholas Nixon and Frank Gohlke - who became known as founders of the New Topographics movement, named for a highly influential exhibition, "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape," at the George Eastman House in Rochester in 1975. Their work was united by a seemingly dispassionate, affectless presentation — the critic Ken Johnson, writing in The New York Times, once compared it to pictures taken by an insurance adjuster — of the rapid transformation wrought across the countryside in the 1960s and ’70s by suburban development, strip malls, highways and motels.

Lewis Baltz, photographer, dead at 69 due to complications of emphysema and cancer. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/a...rapher-of-american-landscapes-dies-at-69.html