Lewis Baltz:

Lewis Baltz — readings by, about

  • Baltz, Lewis. Tract Houses. Sausalito, California: Lewis Baltz, 1972.
  • Baltz, Lewis. The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine California. Sausalito, California: Lewis Baltz, 197 4.
  • Baltz, Lewis and William Jenkins. “Notes on Recent Industrial Developments in Southern California.” Commentary and Portfolio. Image 17 (2) (June, 1974): 1-9.
  • Baltz, Lewis. The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. New York: Castelli Graphics, 1975. Reprinted: Santa Monica: RAM; Gottlnqen, Germany: Steidl, 2001; as part of a trilogy of publications (comprising The Tract Houses, The Prototype Works, and The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California) Santa Monica: RAM; New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.
  • Wise, Kelly, ed. Photographers’ Choice: A Book of Portfolios and Critical Opinion. Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1975.
  •  Baltz, Lewis, ed. Contemporary American Photographic Works. Exhibition catalogue. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1977.
  • Baltz, Lewis. Nevada. New York: Castelli Graphics, 1978.
  • Baltz, Lewis. Essay by Gus Blaisdell. Park City: Photographs by Lewis Baltz.
  • Albuquerque: Artspace Press; New York: Castelli Graphics, 1980.
  • Baltz, Lewis. Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception. Exhibition catalogue.
  • Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press in association with the Des Moines Art Center, 1990.
  •  Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by May Castleberry. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.

Baltz Texts: This long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltz’s writings from 1975 to 2007 is 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, F lix Gonz lez-Torres, John McLaughlin, Slavica Perkovic and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others.

see: https://webionaire.com/2016/07/19/baltz-brief-read/

Robert Adams:

Bibliography (read in light of New Topographics)

Robert Adams

  • Adams, Robert. “Nature Photography Can Include Us.” Sierra Club Bulletin.
  • Adams, Robert. The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range.
  • Adams, Robert. Review of Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy in The Colorado Magazine (Fall, 1974).
  • 14 American Photographers. Introduction by Renato Danese. Exhibition catalogue. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.
  • Baltz, Lewis. Review of The New West by Robert Adams. Art in America 63 (2) (March-April 1975): 41-2.
  • Adams, Robert. D Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area.
  • Colorado: Colorado Associated Press in cooperation with The State Historical Society of Colorado, 1977.
  • Jordon, Bill. “Book Reviews: Denver and The New West,” Photography 1 (4) (July 1977): 30-31.
  • Meinwald, Dan. Afterimage 4 (4) (July 1977): 17.
  • Patton, Phil. “Special Section: Photography Books”, Art in America 65 (6) (November/December 1977): 35-36.
  • Lifson, Ben. “Robert Adams: Notes Toward a Supreme Landscape.” The Village Voice (February 26, 1979).
  • Adams, Robert. From the Missouri West. New York: Aperture, 1980.
  • Armitage, Shelly. “Robert Adams: Post Modernism and Meaning”. Exposure 18 (2) (1981 ): 49-59.
  • Grundberg, Andy. “The Point of Photographs.” New York Times, (November 29, 1981 ): 13-14.
  • Adams, Robert. To Make It Home Photographs of the American West. New York:
  • Aperture, 1989.
  • Adams, Robert. Why People Photograph. New York: Aperture, 1994.
  • Adams, Robert. What We Bought: The New World. Scenes From the Denver Metropolitan Area 1970-1974. Hannover: Sprengel Museum, 1995.
  • Jones Jr., Malcolm. “The Littoral Truth.” Newsweek, November 13, 1995.
  • Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by May Castleberry. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.
  • Kemmerer, Allison; John R. Stilgoe, Adam D. Weinberg. Reinventing the West.
  • Belz, Emily. “Western Expansion”. Art New England 23 (5) (August/September, 2002): 18-19.
  • Adams, Robert. Commercial Residential Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1968-1972. PPP Editions, 2003.

Bernd and Hilla Becher:

Bernd and Hilla Becher, by and about

  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. lndustribauten 1830-1930 I Eine fotografische Dokumentation von Bernd und Hilla Becher. Introduction by Wend Fischer. Munich: Die Neue Sammlung (Staatliches Museum fur angewandte Kunst). March 6-April 16, 1967.
  • Eindhoven, Netherlands. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum. Bernd and Hilla Becher. 1967.
  • lndustriebauten: 10 Fotografien von Bernd und Hilla Becher .. Limited edition portfolios of 10 gelatin silver prints with an introduction by Johannes Cladders. Monchengladbach, Germany. Stadtisches Museum, 1968.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. “Anonyme Skulpturen.” Kunst-Zeitung, [Dusseldorf:
    Verlag Michelpresse], (2) (January 1969).
  • Becher, Bernhard and Hilla. Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten. Dusseldorf, Germany: Art-Press Verlag, 1970. Published simultaneously as: Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions. New York: Witenborn and Co., 1970.
  • Becher, Bernhard and Hilla. Form genom funktion Fotografisk dokumenttion av industribyggnader. Poster and catalogue for the exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1970. Malmo, Sweden: Moderna Museet, 1970.
  • Becher, Bernhard and Hilla. Die Architektur der Forder-und Wassertiirme.
    Essays by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Heinrich Shonburq, and Jan Werth. Munich:
    Prestel-Verlag, 1971.
  • Sobieszek, Robert A. “Two Books of Ultra-Topography.” Image 14 (4) (September 1971): 11-13.
  • Andre, Carl. “A Note on Bernhard and Hilla Becher.” Artforum 11 (4) (December, 1972): 59-6.
  • Kassel, Germany. Documenta V. 1972.
  • Arts Council of Great Britain. With an interview by Lynda Morris. Bernd and Hilla Becher. London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 197 4.
  • La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California. Bernd and Hilla Becher. Introduction by Germano Celant, translated by Anna Canepa and Charles Leslie. La Jolla California, February 23-March 31, 197 4.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Fotografien 1957 bis 1975. Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1975.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Fechwerkheiiser des Siegener lndustriegebietes.
    Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1977. Reprinted: Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2000. Published simultaneously with Framework Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1977. Reprinted: Cambridge, Mass, and London, England: MIT Press, 2001.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Water Towers. Forward by Reyner Banham; commentary by Weston J. Naef. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 1988.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Blast Furnaces. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1990.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Tipologie Typologien Typologies. Introduction by Klaus Bussmann. Exhibition catalogue. Munchen: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 1990.
  • Grundberg, Andy. “Seeking Human Qualities in Industrial Forms.” Review. New York Times. January 7, 1990.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Dia Center for the Arts, 1991.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Gas Tanks. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The MIT Press, 1993.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. lndustriephotographie. Im Spiegel der Tradition. Edited by Monika Steinhauser. Richter Verlag, Dusseldorf: Kunstgeschichtliches lnstitut der Ruhr-Unlversltat, 1994.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Industrial Fecedes. Introduction by Klaus Bussmann.
    Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 1995.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Mineheads. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 1997.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Industrial Landscapes. Interview by Susanne Lange.
    Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2002.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Cooling Towers. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2005.
  • Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Grain Elevators. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2006.
  • Lange, Susanne. Translated by Jeremy Gaines. Bernd and Hilla Becher Life and Work. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2007.