The New Topographics 

Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz was born in Newport Beach, California, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. He worked as a freelance photographer in California and taught photography at various institutions, including the California Institute of the Arts and the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His work has been exhibited in New Topographics at the George Eastman House as well as in Mirrors and Windows at the Museum of Modern Art. He has been based in Europe since the mid-1980s and travels a lot.