Research: Landscape Photography
Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz documents the changing American landscape of the 1970s in the series of new industrial parks near Irvine, California. His project contained 51 pictures depicting structured details, walls at mid distance, offices and parking lots of industrial parks. His pictures are important to have contrast and geometry but his most attention is on surface texture and lifeless subject matter. He had captured these images with a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera and had depth of field, Lewis chooses his material for top clarity and precision. His interest in suburban architecture raised questions about advances of American culture. Lewis is often referred to as a conceptual photographer. Lewis  was influenced by art ideas in late sixties and attracted to the concerns of unimportant painters and sculptors such as Frank Stella and Donald Judd that had given him an resemblance with the new concept attitude toward photography represented by such artists as John Baldessari and Hilla Becher.