Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
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