Lewis Baltz: Rule without Exception / Only Exceptions (2-volume set)

Softcover | 23.77 x 3.84 x 33.1 cm | 376 pp

Steidl | 2012 | 9783869301105

Lewis Baltz (1945-2014) was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".

This two-volume book covers the full sweep and depth of Baltz's influential oeuvre. Rule Without Exception is a reissue of Baltz's award-winning mid-career retrospective book which accompanied a travelling exhibition of the same name in 1991. The book surveys Baltz's work from The Prototype Works of 1967 through to Sites of Technology of 1991, showing the range of his images of industrialised landscapes and technological sites. Each section of the book is accompanied by installation views as well as texts by distinguished writers, some newly commissioned for this edition.

Only Exceptions is a new book chronicling Baltz's work - now usually site-generated commissioned works - from 1992 to 2012 and was published on the occasion of an exhibition organised by the Kunstmuseum, Bonn. Only Exceptions includes Baltz's work in California, Leipzig's Black Triangle, Reggio Emilia, Groningen, Rome, Venice, and two projects with Jean Nouvel in France and Italy.