Lewis Baltz

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I…

— Lewis Baltz

I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down…

— Lewis Baltz

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel…

— Lewis Baltz

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

— Lewis Baltz

Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove…

— Lewis Baltz

“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be…

— Lewis Baltz

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

— Lewis Baltz

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that…

— Lewis Baltz

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

— Lewis Baltz

I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for…

— Lewis Baltz