Synopsis
"89-91, Sites of Technology" traces Lewis Baltz's journey through the workplaces of information technologies in Europe and Japan in the early 1990s. Baltzs concern is not with technology, per se, but with the epiphenomena of technology: the places and non-places shared by persons and machines. This book is an important addition to the oeuvre of one of the most significant and influential photographic artists of the late twentieth century.Lewis Baltz, born in Newport Beach, California, in 1945, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School in 1971. Baltz came to prominence as part of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s, seeking with a dispassionate eye desolate landscapes and forgotten places and exposing the crisis of technology and of man. His work has been exhibited worldwide in major museums and institutions. His publications include: "The New Industrial Parks", "San Quentin Point", "Candlestick Point", "Rule without Exception", "Deaths in Newport", "Politics of Bacteria", "Docile Bodies" and "Ronde de Nuit".