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Joshua Lutz (Born July 18, 1975) is an American artist working with large-format photography and with video. His work has been described as "tender," "sad," "poignant," and being "a triumph of storytelling.
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Lutz was given his first solo exhibition at Gitterman Gallery during the summer of 2004.
In 2008 Lutz's first book, Meadowlands, was published with powerHouse Books. In essayist Robert Sullivan's introduction to the book he describes the Meadowlands as “… that giant swath of swamp and space that separates New Jersey from New York City, or, put another way, from New York City and the rest of the United States of America.” The New Yorker wrote "Joshua Lutz takes the New Topographics of Adams, Shore, and Sternfeld into its current era of urban sprawl.”
In the fall of 2008 Lutz had a solo exhibition for the Meadowlands series at ClampArt Gallery in New York City.
After the release of Meadowlands in 2009, Lutz was interviewed for this series, which was collected and shot over a period of ten years, by Jörg Colberg for the contemporary-photography webzine Contientious Extended. Lutz also received a podcast feature from Daylight Magazine.
A 2012 interview with Lutz for his second book Hestating Beauty was aired on NPR radio.
2013 saw the release of Hesitating Beauty. A series of photographs revealing a different side of Lutz's photography, it tells an extremely personal story of his mother. The book's narrative also carefully and thoughtfully encompassed the generally sensitive topic of mental illness.
In April 2013 Lutz's representing gallery ClampArt Gallery released a press release for Hesitating Beauty.
Gary Heiss, Photographer.