Coming to prominence as part of the ‘New Topographic’ movement of the late 70’s, Lewis’s dispassionate, unsentimentalised eye produced books and exhibitions such as; The New Industrial Parks, Nevada, the seminal Park City, and culminating in San Quentin Point and Candlestick Point. These works had an enormous influence on a generation of photographers trying to define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs. Lewis’s curriculum vitae now looks like a denial of those works, with selected exhibitions, articles, texts and public collections only listed since 1990. Works such as Night Cities, the trilogy of Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies and The Politics of Bacteria, Rule without Exception was published in 1991. The story, The Deaths in Newport - produced as exhibition, book and CD-Rom in 1995. Exhibitions in 1999 include: The American Century, Whitney Museum , New York. Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. The Promise of Photography, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris. La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire: Academie de France á Rome, Villa Medici. Changement d’Air, Musee d’Art Moderne Lille Metropole. Views from the End of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Lewis Baltz is currently the Visiting Professor at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Offenbach-am-Main, Germany

But it is still the same critical, enlightened spirit, a changed standpoint and methodology maybe, but with a consistent attitude, now not only connected to his head, but also to his heart! As Urs Stahel states in the introduction to Lewis’s work in Photography after Photography, "on the one side there are those who stand and look on aghast, sadness in one eye, anger in the other... and on the other side are those who ride with him in the lift or on the roller coaster..."

Slavica Perkovic’s work mirrors contemporary issues and has been displayed in public places causing controversy by emulating conventional advertising in placement but offering an alternative content.

Exhibitions include: 1998, Histories , St. Petri du Lubeck, Germany. 1999, Boys N Girls, Edda Birman Kunst, Berlin. 1999 UNDER/EXPOSED, public project for the Stockholm Metro. La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire: Academie de France á Rome, Villa Medici.

Get up to scratch with what’s happening in Photography and where your own practice fits in. Work with one of the most exciting and knowledgeable photographers in the world. While in no way dismissing his hugely successful early career, we will discuss Lewis’s assertion that "the only edge is the cutting edge!" and relate your practice to his personal change from cool ‘New Topographer’ of the 70’s and 80’s, to the ‘Post Photographic’ passionate storyteller, of the 90’s! (with his partner, Slavica). Essential workshop with one of the really nice guys, who can explain lucidly the turnabouts in our perception of reality.

Park City ,  San Quentin Point , Candlestick Point , The Deaths in Newport

"All art is exorcism" Otto Dix

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