LEWIS BALTZ (1994-2014)
1. Lewis Baltz caught my eye because of the intensity of the lighting. I really enjoy pictures that have this quality because it makes a photo pop and it feels balanced. Also, with it being so bold in color it captures the viewers attention. Each photograph had a different aspect about it that grabbed my attention. Baltz uses a 35 mm camera with a 35 mm lens usually at the eye level and always writes the location of the photograph so that the viewer could return to that same place.
2. Having grown up in Newport Beach, California in the 1970's, Lewis Baltz was always in an urban setting. His projects included structural details, walls, buildings, and parking lots of industrial parks. The intent was to create something you would consider to be trash or destroyed and make it into something that someone would want to look at, or at least take a second look at.
3. Lewis Baltz's series is intriguing because it is more than what you see and makes you think. The photographs are not only aesthetically pleasing, but it sends a message to the viewer. It suggests that these structures were forgotten and run down, but that they are still there and cannot just be overlooked day to day. Baltz told an interviewer from the Smithsonian Museum of art "I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve" in 2009.
Sources: http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?type=related&kv=6860&t=people
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/04/interview-interview-with-lewis-baltz-2.html
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