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Baltz – Brief Read

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Views enlarge what they engage. Whenever primates look in one direction, they see two views, one through each eye. The camera blocks parts of the world; words the other.

“Untitled” Baltz : (1974 ) first published in  Image volume 17 number 10 June 1974 . George Eastman House. This was published the year before ‘New Topographics,’exhibit held at Eastman. In this short essay of 8 paragraphs Baltz provides summary estimates of “typical” industrial sites; where, why, how. Reading it all these years later, I don’t remember it from then, though I subscribed to Image, there is a desolate tone. And, the final paragraph does offer a (mild) condemnation, as well as an erroneous assumption about likely economic actions.

“Panegyric” Baltz. The praise is of Larry Sultan, from the “Larry Sultan” book. A brief, but strong statement of appreciation of Larry as the person. Recalling time with Larry, Henry Wessel, and Baltz playing racquetball; avoiding talk of their different work.

These are pieces of Lewis Baltz, discovered as I was looking for something else. I knew Larry – I went to school at SFAI in the same class as him, Mike and 6 other people.

I never knew Lewis Baltz, but feel I know much more about him now. We are lucky he left us so many words.

  • Sultan July 1946- December 2009  (aged 63) cancer (wife Kelly)
  • Baltz September 1945- November 2014 (aged 69) cancer & emphysema

ISBN-10: 1934105295 &  ISBN-10: 3735600697

Eat your vitamin A, C, D, exercise doesn’t prevent cancer.

Lewis Baltz (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014) was a visual artist and photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s.[2] His work has been published in a number of books, presented in numerous exhibitions, and appeared in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.[citation needed] He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui.

Publications

  • Landscape: Theory, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter, Carol Digrappa and Robert Adams, 1980 ISBN 0-912810-27-0
  • The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, Lewis Baltz and Adam Weinburg, 2001 ISBN 0-9630785-6-9
  • The Tract Houses: Die Siedlungshauser (English and German Edition), Lewis Baltz, 2005 ISBN 0-9703860-4-4
  • The Prototype Works, Lewis Baltz, 2010 ISBN 3-86521-763-X
  • Mario Pfeifer: Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, Lewis Baltz, Mario Pfeifer, Vanessa Joan Mueller, 2011 ISBN 1-934105-29-5
  • Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Lewis Baltz, 2011 ISBN 3-86930-109-0
  • Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception / Only Exceptions, Lewis Baltz, 2012 ISBN 3-86930-110-4
  • Lewis Baltz: Texts., Lewis Baltz, 2012 ISBN 3-86930-436-7
  • Lewis Baltz, Lewis Baltz, 2017 ISBN 3-95829-279-8

References

July Birthdays

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Irving Pobboravsky (1933, 29 July – )
Cecil Bendall (1856, 1 July – 1906, 14 March)
Kenneth Josephson (1932, 1 July – )
Léonard Misonne (1870, 1 July – 1943, 14 September)
André Kertész (1894, 2 July – 1985, 27 September)
Marmaduke Henry Arnott (1858, 3 July – 1943, 14 February)
Julie Blackmon (1966, 3 July – )
Lynne Cohen (1944, 3 July – 2014, 12 May)
Lejaren à Hiller (1880, 3 July – 1969, 23 May)
Boyd Webb (1947, 3 July – )
Jacob Carter (1985, 4 July – )
Van Deren Coke (1921, 4 July – 2004, 11 July)
Tim Maslen (1968, 4 July – )
Erdély Miklós (1928, 4 July – 1986, 22 May)
Elizabeth Opalenik (1947, 4 July – )
Donigan Cumming (1947, 5 July – )
Paul den Hollander (1950, 5 July – )
Sarah Anne Johnson (1976, 5 July – )
Harry K. Shigeta (1887, 5 July – 1963, 21 April)
Rev William Simpson (1828, 5 July – 1902, 15 July)
Sophus Williams (1835, 5 July – 1900, 18 October)
Raymond Depardon (1942, 6 July – )
Robert Ellison (1944, 6 July – 1968, 6 March)
Heinrich Harrer (1912, 6 July – 2006, 7 January)
Deborah Turbeville (1937, 6 July – 2013, 24 October)
Larry Wiese (1940, 6 July – )
Mieczyslaw Berman (1903, 7 July – 1975, 6 May)
Yul Brynner (1915, 7 July – 1985, 10 October)
Robert Demachy (1859, 7 July – 1936, 29 December)
Frank B. Gilbreth (1868, 7 July – 1924, 14 June)
Anthony Hernandez (1947, 7 July – )
P.H. Oelman (1880, 7 July – 1957, 7 August)
Romualdas Požerskis (1951, 7 July – )
Vladimir Brunton (1961, 8 July – )
Gilles Caron (1939, 8 July – 1970, 5 April)
Bobby Neel Adams (1953, 9 July – )
David Hockney (1937, 9 July – )
Henry Peach Robinson (1830, 9 July – 1901, 21 February)
Minor White (1908, 9 July – 1976, 24 June)
David P. Bayles (1952, 10 July – )
Dean Brown (1936, 10 July – 1973, 8 July)
Wendell MacRae (1896, 10 July – 1980, 30 November)
Karl De Laittre Jr. (1909, 11 July – 1939)
Georges Hugnet (1906, 11 July – 1974, 26 June)
Barbara Astman (1950, 12 July – )
George Eastman (1854, 12 July – 1932, 14 March)
Raoul Hausmann (1886, 12 July – 1971, 1 February)
Otto Steinert (1915, 12 July – 1978, 3 March)
Maurice Tabard (1897, 12 July – 1984, 23 February)
Grace Robertson (1930, 13 July – )
Gertrude Bell (1868, 14 July – 1926, 12 July)
Frank R. Fraprie (1874, 14 July – 1951, 20 July)
Lee Friedlander (1934, 14 July – )
Marcel Gautherot (1910, 14 July – 1996, 8 October)
John Blakemore (1936, 15 July – )
Thérèse Bonney (1894, 15 July – 1978, 15 January)
Faustinus Deraet (1965, 15 July – )
Robert Miller (1961, 15 July – )
J. Wells Champney (1843, 16 July – 1903, 1 May)
F.C. Gundlach (1926, 16 July – )
Joseph T. Keiley (1869, 16 July – 1914, 21 January)
Paul Kenny (1951, 16 July – )
Nasir al-Din Shah (1831, 16 July – 1896, 1 May)
Robert C. Nyquist (1924, 16 July – 2000, 4 March)
George Tosco Peppé (1848, 16 July – 1893, 21 August)
Charles Sheeler (1883, 16 July – 1965, 7 May)
Emmanuel Sougez (1889, 16 July – 1972, 24 August)
Jean Baptiste Corot (1796, 17 July – 1875, 22 February)
Arnold Crane (1932, 17 July – 2014, 22 November)
Jane Gottlieb (1946, 17 July – )
Ida Lansky (1910, 17 July – 1997, 27 November)
Charles Marville (1813, 17 July – 1879, 1 June)
Joy Goldkind (1943, 18 July – )
Ferdinando Ongania (1842, 18 July – 1911, 21 August)
Ulrich Mack (1934, 19 July – )
Frederick H. Pratt (1873, 19 July – 1958, 11 July)
Cesare Di Liborio (1960, 20 July – )
Charles Horetzky (1838, 20 July – 1900, 30 April)
Robert Yarnall Ritchie (1908, 20 July – 1984)
Heather Angel (1941, 21 July – )
A. Aubrey Bodine (1906, 21 July – 1970, 28 October)
David Hurn (1934, 21 July – )
Russell Lee (1903, 21 July – 1986, 28 August)
Tony Mendoza (1941, 21 July – )
Henri-Victor Regnault (1810, 21 July – 1878, 19 January)
David Potts (1926, 22 July – )
Gerald Robinson (1927, 22 July – )
Christer Strömholm (1918, 22 July – 2002, 11 January)
George Passman Tate (1856, 22 July – ?)
Oscar Bailey (1925, 23 July – )
F. Holland Day (1864, 23 July – 1933, 2 November)
Darius Kinsey (1869, 23 July – 1945, 13 May)
Juan Laurent (1816, 23 July – 1886, 24 November)
Kenneth Macleod (1840, 23 July – 1922, 17 December)
Mike Robinson (1961, 23 July – )
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843, 24 July – 1920, 2 December)
Robert Janssen (1904, 24 July – 1989)
Alphonse Marie Mucha (1860, 24 July – 1939, 14 July)
James Waterhouse (1842, 24 July – 1922, 28 September)
Colonel Horatio Biden (1829, 27 July – 1908, 19 June)
Thomas Eakins (1844, 25 July – 1916, 25 June)
Jim Dow (1942, 26 July – )
Elliott Erwitt (1928, 26 July – )
Andy Goldsworthy (1956, 26 July – )
Stanley Kubrick (1928, 26 July – 1999, 7 March)
George Bernard Shaw (1856, 26 July – 1950, 2 November)
William Eggleston (1939, 27 July – )
Hugo Henneberg (1863, 27 July – 1918, 11 July)
Edmund Kesting (1892, 27 July – 1970, 21 October)
Jerry Burchfield (1947, 28 July – 2009, 11 September)
Eleanor Parke Custis (1897, 28 July – 1983, 23 July)
Marcel Duchamp (1887, 28 July – 1968, 2 October)
Chris Steele-Perkins (1947, 28 July – )
Rob Wright (1906, 28 July – 1976, 28 October)
Joshua Crissman (1833, 29 July – 1920, 26 May)
Major Henry Hugh Peter Deasy (1866, 29 July – 1947, 24 January)
Charles Harbutt (1935, 29 July – 2015)
Erich Hartmann (1922, 29 July – 1999)
Chris Marker (1921, 29 July – 2012, 30 July)
Charles Cushman (1896, 30 July – 1972, 8 June)
Horacio Coppola (1906, 31 July – 2012, 18 June)
Walter Nelson (1942, 31 July – )
Richard Dixon Oldham (1858, 31 July – 1936, 31 May)
Donald P. Wilson (1902, 31 July – 1993, 26 September)

June Birthdays

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Christopher Bucklow (1957, 1 June – )
Ruth Hallensleben (1898, 1 June – 1977)
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822, 1 June – 1865, 19 January)
Jennifer Mehra (1970, 1 June – )
Lowell N. Miller (1914, 1 June – 1999, 5 August)
Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1822, 1 June – 1909, 2 March)
William J. Stillman (1828, 1 June – 1901, 6 July)
Rineke Dijkstra (1959, 2 June – )
John Dugdale (1960, 2 June – )
Frank Grisdale (1954, 2 June – )
Richard Long (1945, 2 June – )
Eduard Spelterini (1852, 2 June – 1931, 16 June)
Joaquin Trujillo (1976, 2 June – )
Jerry Dantzic (1925, 3 June – 2006, 14 December)
Allen Ginsberg (1926, 3 June – 1997, 5 April)
Cesare Leonardi (1935. 3 June – )
Wilfred Thesiger (1910, 3 June – 2003, 24 August)
Hillary G. Bailey (1894, 5 June – 1988, 10 October)
Édouard Baldus (1813, 5 June – 1889, 22 December)
John Paul Edwards (1884, 5 June – 1968)
Dawid (1949, 7 June – )
Pierre Ichac (1901, 7 June – 1978, 20 August)
Tony Ray-Jones (1941, 7 June – 1972, 13 March)
Bradford Washburn (1910, 7 June – 2007, 10 January)
Shotaro Akiyama (1920, 8 June – 2003, 16 January)
Walter Chappell (1925, 8 June – 2000, 8 August)
Peter Gasser (1947, 8 June – )
Angus McBean (1904, 8 June – 1990, 9 June)
Robert Waller-Senior (1848, 8 June – )
Ed Arning (1855, 9 June – 1936)
Gustaf Dalman (1855, 9 June – 1941, 19 August)
Fritz Henle (1909, 9 June – 1993, 31 January)
Thomas Höpker (1936, 10 June – )
Edwin Max Konstam (1870, 10 June – 1956, 7 April)
Richard Margolis (1943, 10 June – )
Walter S. Meyers (1884, 10 June – 1960, 8 January)
Mathew J. Steffens (1852, 10 June – 1928, 30 April)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815, 11 June – 1879, 26 January)
Brigitte Carnochan (1941, 11 June – )
Elinor Carucci (1971, 11 June – )
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882, 11 June – 1966, 23 November)
Fred W. Edwards (1911, 11 June – 1978, 26 March)
T. Lux Feininger (1910, 11 June – 2011, 7 July)
Jerry N. Uelsmann (1934, 11 June – )
Eddie Adams (1933, 12 June – 2004, 19 September)
H.C. Anderson (1911, 12 June – 1998)
Werner Braun (1918, 12 June – )
Mark Edwards (1947, 12 June – )
Weegee (1899, 12 June – 1968, 26 December)
Gerry Badger (1948, 13 June – )
Karl Blossfeldt (1865, 13 June – 1932, 9 December)
Adolphe Braun (1812, 13 June – 1877, 31 December)
Christo (1935, 13 June – )
Jeanne-Claude (1935, 13 June – 2009, 18 November)
Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894, 13 June – 1986, 12 September)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831, 13 June – 1879, 5 November)
Margaret Bourke-White (1904, 14 June – 1971, 27 August)
Alexander John Ellis (1814, 14 June – 1890, 28 October)
Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1921, 14 June – 2012, 6 February)
Lillian Bassman (1917, 15 June – 2012, 13 February)
Dirk Braeckman (1958, 15 June – )
Brian Duffy (1933, 15 June – 2010, 31 May)
Paul de Nooijer (1943, 15 June – )
Étienne-Gaspard Robertson (1763, 15 June – 1837, July)
Jo Spence (1934, 15 June – 1992, May)
Carel Blazer (1911, 16 June – 1980)
Arnaud Claass (1949, 16 June – )
Jim Dine (1935, 16 June – )
Irving Penn (1917, 16 June – 2009, 7 October)
Patrick Taberna (1964, 16 June – )
Eric Weeks (1965, 16 June – )
John Baldessari (1931, 17 June – )
Barnaby Hall (1948, 17 June – )
Paul Burty Haviland (1880, 17 June – 1950, 21 December)
Henry Newton (1822, 17 June – 1900, 20 March)
G.V. Thomson (1887, 17 June – 1986)
Anton Stankowski (1906, 18 June – 1998, 11 December)
Horst H. Baumann (1934, 19 June – )
John Heartfield (1891, 19 June – 1968, 26 April)
Addison Scurlock (1883, 19 June – 1964, 16 December)
George Brookwell (1866, 20 June – 1941, 8 August)
William Dassonville (1879, 20 June – 1957, 15 July)
Jean Dieuzaide (1921, 20 June – 2003)
Anton Hautmann (1821, 20 June – 1862, 1 December)
Judy Dater (1941, 21 June – )
Hanns Hubmann (1910, 21 June – )
Susan Meiselas (1948, 21 June – )
Dorothy Bohm (1924, 22 June – )
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943, 22 June – 1978, 27 August)
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897, 22 June – 1966, 27 September)
Lilo Raymond (1922, 23 June – 2009, 6 September)
Karl Baden (1952, 24 June – )
Bob Carlos Clarke (1950, 24 June – 2006, 25 March)
Nic Nicosia (1951, 24 June – )
Marc Riboud (1923, 24 June – )
Flip Schulke (1930, 24 June – 2008, 15 May)
Douglas Ethridge (1951, 25 June – )
Earl H. Evers (1912, 25 June – 1999, 11 March)
Frederick H. Evans (1853, 26 June – 1943, 24 June)
Lewis Koch (1949, 26 June – )
Walter B. Woodbury (1834, 26 June – 1885, 5 September)
Samuel A. Bemis (1793, 27 June – 1881, 22 May)
Brian Brake (1927, 27 June – 1988)
John Dominis (1921, 27 June – )
Dave Heath (1931, 27 June – )
Fazal Sheikh (1965, 27 June – )
Vladislav Klembovsky (1860, 28 June – 1921, 19 July)
Burton Pritzker (1941, 28 June – )
Harold Allen (1912, 29 June – )
Richard Blair (1948, 29 June – )
Caroline Hyman (1944, 29 June – )
James Van der Zee (1886, 29 June – 1983)
Charles Brooke (1804, 30 June – 1879, 17 May)
Sean Scully (1945, 30 June – )
Bob Willoughby (1927, 30 June – 2009, 18 December)