Born in Newport Beach, California, Lewis Baltz (1945-2014) studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Claremont Graduate School. Baltz came to prominence with the New Topographics movement of the 1970s, and his awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Charles Pratt Memorial Award. Baltz's work is held in many major museum collections. His books with Steidl include 89-91, Sites of Technology (2007), WORKS (2010), The Prototype Works (2011) and Candlestick Point (2011). Slavica Perkovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and studied art history and experimental cinema at the École de Louvre and the University of Paris VIII. Perkovic has exhibited internationally and her work is held in institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Her books with Steidl are Betty, Kim, Irena, Slavika (2001) and Nika Forever (2011).