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Lewis Baltz Biography
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1945 |
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Born in Newport Beach, CA
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1969 |
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BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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1971 |
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MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
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1970 - 1972 |
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Instructor for Photography at the Pamona College (CA) and at the California Insitute of Arts, Valencia
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1973 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhip
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1973 |
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Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts
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1976 |
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Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts
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1977 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhip
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1977 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
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1980 |
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US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship
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1991 |
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Charles Pratt Memorial Award
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1972 - 2003 |
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Several guest professorships at European and US-american universities and art colleges
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Lives and works in Paris and Venice
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Since 2004 |
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Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2013
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Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
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2012
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Carl Andre/Lewis Baltz, Tate Modern, London, GB
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2012
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Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
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2012
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Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo)
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2011 - 2012
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Photography Calling! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany
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2011
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DC Bonus, Groupshow of the galleries Schmidt Maczollek, Michael Wiesehöfer and Galerie Thomas Zander, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany
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2011
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Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
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2011
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New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
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2011
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Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Art Unlimited / Art Basel, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2011
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Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (solo)
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2010 - 2011
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Hyper Real - Realismen in Malerei und Fotografie, MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
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2010 - 2011
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New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
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2010
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American Documents, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerps, Belgium
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2010
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Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
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2010
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Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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2010
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Anonymous America: photography and film, Le Bal, Paris, France
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2010
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Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
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2010
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Lewis Baltz / Donald Judd, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2010
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MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
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2010
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Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
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2010
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The View from Here, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
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2010
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New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
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2010
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Identité(s)/ Territorialité(s), TRAFIC - FRac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
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2010
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The Park City Portfolio, UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA (solo)
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2009
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Several Silences, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Nighttown, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Life is stranger than fiction, FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadforum, Innsbruck, Austria
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008), Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine, BNF - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
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2008
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Lewis Baltz: 1989-91 Sites of Technology, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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2008
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Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia, MACBA, Barcelona, Museum Colecçao Berardo
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2008
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Context: Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas (with works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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2008
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This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
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2008
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Jennifer Bornstein Selects From the Grunwald Collection, Hamme Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
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2008
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20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan
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2008
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Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New York
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2008
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D'Impossibles Trendezvous-Biennale de St. Denis, Paris
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2008
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American Photography les Annees 70, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
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2008
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Lewis Baltz, Andrew Roth, New York (solo)
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2007
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Museo Civici di Modena, Modena, Italy (solo)
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Ingenuity, Calouste Golbenkian Center, Lisbon, Portugal
Life is Stranger Than Fiction, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Views of Water, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Des fantomes et des anges, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Art for Yale: Collecting for the 21st Century, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
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2006
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Lewis Baltz: Desert of Disintegration, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremererhaven, Germany (solo)
Tempo Moderno, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
TRANS EMILIA. Collection Linea di Confine, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and SKStiftung, Cologne
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2005
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Candlestick Point (1989) and Prototype Works (1966-1976), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2005
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STEIDL China Launch and Photography Exhibition , Timezone 8 Editions , Beijing, RC
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2005
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The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection , National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA
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2004
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Sites of Technology, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne (solo)
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2004
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Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2003
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Cruel and Tender; the Real in 20th Century Photography, The Tate Modern, London, UK; The Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
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2002
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Visions From America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2002
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Neue Topografik, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Gremany (solo)
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2002
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Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (solo)
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2002
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
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2002
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University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (solo)
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2001
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Was wäre wenn, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany (solo)
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2001
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Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA (solo)
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2001
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CTRL SPACE Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2001
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Le moment conteporain de la fabrique du paysage, Institute Franco-Japoniaise, Tokyo
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2001
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Luoghi come paessagi/Places as Landscape II, Palazzo Reale, Napoli
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2000
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Afterimages, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
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2000
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How You Look At It, Spengel Museum Hannover, circulating to Staedl Museum, Frankfurt
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2000
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Identification of a Landscape, Assessori di Cultura Commune de Venezia
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1999
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Lewis Baltz: Prototype Works, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Boys 'N Girls, Dirty Windows Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium
The American Century Whitney Museum, New York
Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Views from the End of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Changement d’air, Musee d’art moderne Lille Metropole
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1998
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Generic Night Cities, Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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1997
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Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer, Museum Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Artists’ Position on the Industrial Landscape, Museum Grassi, Leipzig, Germany
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1996
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery RAM, Santa Monica, CA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Stories of Desire and Power, Galerie Angelo Falzone, Mannheim, Germany
Galerie Andres Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
The Perpetual Mirage, Whitney Museum of American Art
Homo Ecologicus. Fondacion Juan Miro, Barcelona
Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1995
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Works 1979-1994, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelbaek, Denmark (solo)
Esthetiques de l'Ordinaire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France
Janet Borden Inc., New York, NY
Ars 95, Atheneum, Helsinki
Le Monde Apres La Photographie, Musee d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Villa Arson, Nice
Photography After Photography, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, Museum für Fotografie Braunschweig, Germany
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1994
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La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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1994
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The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels
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1993
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Critical Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
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1993
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Photographs From the Real World, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
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1993
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Photoplay: Works from The Chase Manhattan Collection. Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL
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1993
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Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
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1993
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Rule Without Exception, Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Switzerland (solo)
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1992
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Ronde de Nuit, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo)
Wasteland, Rotterdam Biennial III. Catalogue
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1991
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Images of Excellence, International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (solo)
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA(solo)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (solo)
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1990
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The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning, International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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1990
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Rule Without Exception, New York Institute of Contemporary Art P.S.1, New York (solo)
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1990
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Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990, ICA Philadelphia
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1989
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Dialectical Landscapes: Nuovo Passagio Americano, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
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1987
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Modern Photography and Beyond, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
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1987
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Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Museum Ludwig Cologne
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1987
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Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1987
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Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1986
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Newport Harbor Art Museum
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1985
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Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum, Tokyo
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1985
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Photography in California, 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1985
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
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1985
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (solo)
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1984
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Photography in California 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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1984
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Matrix, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkley, CA (solo)
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1981
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (solo)
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1981
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
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1980
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Photographie als Kunst: Kunst als Photographie, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
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1980
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Werkstatt für Photographie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1979
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Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (solo)
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1979
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American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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1979
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
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1978
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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1977
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Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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1976
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Baltimore Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (solo)
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1975
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
New Topographics, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y
Philadelphia College of Art
IXe Biennale de Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris
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1974
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1973
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
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1971
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Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, MA
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
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Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
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National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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Power Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
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Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
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Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
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Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
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Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Henie-Onstad Foundation, Oslo, Norway
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International Center of Photography, New York
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Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
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Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris
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Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
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| Literature |
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2012
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ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, 2012
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2011
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Candlestick Point, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2011
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2010
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Works (including 10 books), Steidl Publishers, 2010
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2007
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89/91 Sites of Technology, Steidl Publishers, 2007
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2005
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The Prototypes. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; RAM, Los Angeles; Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2005
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2005
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The Tract Houses. essay by Sherlm Conkleton. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; RAM, Los Angeles; Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2005
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2003
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The Deaths In Newport, onestarpress, Paris, 2003
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2001
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Was wäre wenn. Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany, 2001
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2001
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The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2001
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2001
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Rian, Jeff. Lewis Baltz, Phaidon, London, 2001
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1998
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Butler, Cornelia. Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and RAM, 1998
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1996
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Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic. Scalo, Zurich and New York, 1996
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1995
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Les Morts de Newport Beach, Editions de l'Aquarium Agnostique, Valenciennes, 1995
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1995
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Baudier, Dennis and Salling Morten. Lewis Baltz. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1995
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1995
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The Deaths In Newport, CD-ROM, Paradox, Rotterdam, 1995
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1993
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Stahel, Urs, ed. Regel Ohne Ausnahme, Scalo Verlag, Zurich & Berlin, 1993
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1993
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Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard. Lewis Baltz. Editions de La Difference, Paris, 1993
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1992
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Fukugawa, Masafumi, ed. Rule Without Exception, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan, 1992
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1992
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Visser, Hripsime. Lewis Baltz: 5 Projects, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1992
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1992
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Ronde de Nuit, with Olivier Boissiere. CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1992
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1991
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Turrell, Julia Brown , ed. Rule Without Exception. Des Moines Art Center, 1991
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1991
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Giochi di Simulatzione. Linea di Confine di Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1991
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1989
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Candlestick Point, text by Gus Blaisdell. Min Gallery, Tokyo, 1989
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1986
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San Quentin Point, essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. editions de La Difference, Paris and Aperture, New York, 1986
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1981
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Park City, with Gus Blaisdell, Castelli Graphics New York, with Aperture, Inc., 1981
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1978
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Nevada, Castelli Graphics, New York, 1978
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1976
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Maryland, essay by Jane Livingston. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1976
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1975
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The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. Castelli Graphics New York, 1975
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