The landscape photographs by the US-American Lewis Baltz are characterized by deserted and frequently devastated peripheries. In 1970s, he revolutionized fine-art photography with motifs that had previously not been thought worth depicting, such as industrial buildings, suburban housing developments, and wasteland.

From March 2013, the Albertina will dedicate an exhibition comprising as many as several hundreds of photographs to this artist, who was born in Newport Beach, California, in 1945. On display will be, among other works, the famous series The Tract Houses (1971) and The New Industr...

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Infinite Ice
Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present
20 August - 23 November 2008
Throughout history largely inaccessible tracts of land have always exerted a great fascination on people as did the Eternal Ice. From the middle of the 19th century onwards, photography made it possible to capture a single instant of nature and to reproduce it. What proved to be of particular attraction to photographers were glaciers and Arctic landscapes. The Albertina devotes its annual photographic exhibition this year to this very special type of landscape photography, contrasting early works of the 19th century wi...

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