I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite;… — 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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