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accession number:	1992.122
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Irvine, 1970. Lewis Baltz (American, 1945–2014). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 14.6 x 21.5 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 19.9 x 24.9 cm (7 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ruthe and Heinz Eppler Fund 1992.122

title:				Irvine
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creation date:			1970
creation date earliest:		1970
creation date latest:		1970
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creditline:			Ruthe and Heinz Eppler Fund
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	Vintage gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Lewis Baltz (American, 1945–2014)  - artist
Lewis Baltz American, 1945 - In his work, Charles Lewis Baltz makes visible the banality of human activity. His austere black-and-white photographs of industrial warehouses, suburban tract houses, and prefab structures were included in the 1975 exhibition New Topographics at the George Eastman House, Rochester, establishing him as one of several photographers concerned with a changing American landscape. His related publications include The Tract Houses (1972), The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California (1975), Maryland (1976), Nevada (1978), Park City (1980), San Quentin Point (1986), and Candlestick Point (1989). Other publications include Rule without Exception (1990), a survey of his work from 1967–90, and Lewis Baltz: Five Projects (1991). On one level, Baltz's photographs are investigations of space, architecture, materials, and technology. Yet, often devoid of human figures, the images also read as skeptical commentary on the relation of economic expansion at the expense of environmental preservation. With the advance of recent technologies, Baltz has turned his eye from the industrial to the virtual landscape in large color photo/text murals. For these installations, Baltz addresses issues of surveillance, power, and control in the information age by forcing the viewer to confront a confused knot of media imagery and its mechanical underpinnings. Born in Newport Beach, California, Baltz earned a B.F.A. in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute (1969) and an M.F.A. in photography from Claremont Graduate School (1971). His work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 one-person shows, and he has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1976), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977), and the United States -- United Kingdom Bicentennial Fellowship (1980). Baltz lives in Paris and Sausalito, California. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 14.6 x 21.5 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 19.9 x 24.9 cm (7 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in black felt pen on verso: "Irvine 1970 L B 1970"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

	title:		Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1996-11-24T05:00:00
	<i>Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Athens, Ohio: Trisolini Gallery (May 10 - June 4, 1977); Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Art Institute (October 21 - November 20, 1977): "Three Photographic Visions," pp. 5-19.', 'opening_date': '1977-05-10T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: "Selected Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 67 no. 74.', 'opening_date': '1992-01-28T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'}

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 92
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