Saturday, 22 January 2011

Research artist--- Lewis Baltz



 Lewis Baltz was born in California in 1945. He was a visual artist but then later he became a photographer. He was graduated from San Fransisco Art Institute. He became interested in the nature where human beings destroyed the landscape.He photographed mainly human landscapes like offices, factories and parking lots.He was also concerned that people are wasting the precious land for constructing for parking cars and storage places,instead he would suggest that the land should be used to help the community, especially to produce food or manufacture materials. He also wrote many books on photography.Baltz moved to Europe in 1980s and there he started to produce large colour prints. He became the professor of photography at European Graduate school. He now lives in Paris and Venice.

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