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.
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.… - Lewis Baltz
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.…
- Lewis Baltz
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film. - Lewis Baltz
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.
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 co… - 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 some meaning can be co…
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
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. - Lewis Baltz
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.
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 than ana… - 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 from reality than ana…
I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done… - Lewis Baltz
I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done…
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
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down…
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that th… - Lewis Baltz
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that th…
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