Lewis Baltz Citas

• 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

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• Utilicé la fotografía para distanciarme de un mundo que detestaba y que era incapaz de mejorar.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Distance, World

  Interview with Matthew Witovsky, www.aaa.si.edu. November 15-17, 2009.

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

  Lewis Baltz

  Film, Novel, Areas

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

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  Photography, Cameras, Wanted

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• Vivía en Monterey, un lugar al que los fotógrafos clásicos -los Weston, Wynn Bullock y Ansel Adams- acudían para disfrutar de una vista privilegiada de la naturaleza. Pero mi vida cotidiana rara vez me llevaba a Point Lobos o a Yosemite; me llevaba a los centros comerciales, y a las gasolineras y a todos los demás crecimientos insalubres que florecían junto a la autopista. Era un paisaje que a nadie más le interesaba contemplar. Aparte de mí.

  Lewis Baltz

  Views, Shopping, Growth

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• 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

  Photography, Thinking, Might

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• 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 in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Ambition, Artist

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• 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 powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Powerful, Ideas

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

  Lewis Baltz

  Art, Ideals, Documents

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• 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 analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.

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  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• 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 this was a minority point of view.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Art, Views

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