Background
Koch, Lewis Charles was born on June 26, 1949 in New York City. Son of Richard Frederick and Janet Phillips Koch.
(Exhibition catalog from a show by Lewis Koch at UW-Madiso...)
Exhibition catalog from a show by Lewis Koch at UW-Madison in 2003. Contemporary photographys contrasted with texts (reproduction of book pages) mostly from 19th century sources. 48pp.: ill.; 23cm.
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Koch, Lewis Charles was born on June 26, 1949 in New York City. Son of Richard Frederick and Janet Phillips Koch.
B.A., History, Beloit College, 1971 (& studied, Copenhagen University, 1970). Fund for Concerned Photography Program, New York University, 1971.
Historian Intern, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service [NPS], Washington, DC, 1969; Museum Technician, NPS, West Orange, NJ, 1972; Exhibits Specialist, NPS, Harpers Ferry, WV, 1974.
Artist, Madison, WI, since 1975.
Visiting faculty, Milwaukee Center for Photography, Milwaukee, WI, 1978-1982.
Projects co-director, Wisconsin Folk Museum, Mount Horeb, WI, 1979-1995.
Photography instructor, University of WI-Extension., Madison, 1980-1983.
Visiting faculty, Beloit College, WI, 1987.
Artist-in-residence, LightWork, Syracuse, NY, 1983.
Fotografisk Center, Digital Room Artist-in-residence, Copenhagen, 2001.
(Exhibition catalog from a show by Lewis Koch at UW-Madiso...)
Touchless Automatic Wonder
(A poetic and visual journey, the book presents “found tex...)
One-person shows include Charles Allis Museum Art, Milwaukee, 1981, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1982, Everson Museum Art, Syracuse, 1984, Rice University, Houston, 1987, Camerawork, London, 1988, Perspektief, Rotterdam, 1988, American Cultural Center, Brussels, 1988, Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark 1991, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 1991, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, 1992, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1995, Manif '97, Seoul, Korea, 1997, OK Harris, NYC, 2003, Flatfile Contemporary Chicago, 2004, Columbus Museum of Art (OH) 2005,, Espace Contretype, Brussels, 2015, others. Represented in permanent collections Bibliotheque National, Paris, Brooklyn Museum Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Everson Museum Art, Syracuse, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum Art, Kansas City, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, others. Co-editor, photographer: (book) Wisconsin Images, 1978.Photographer: (books) In Tune with Tradition, 1990, Passed to the Present, 1994, Wisconsin Folk Art, 1998, Notes from the Stone Paved Path, 2003, Touchless Automatic Wonder, 2009..
Married Ann T. Behrmann. Children: Lars Walker Koch and Megan Deborah Sampson Walla.