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

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

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

- 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…

- Lewis Baltz

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

- 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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- Lewis Baltz