RIP Lewis Baltz 1945-2014 I went to a workshop led by him at the Photographers Place in Derbyshire around 1979, having been greatly impressed by his work in The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California. Along with Robert Adams and Stephen Shore his work has had a great influence on my photographic practice. He brought with him the page proofs of Park City and we were able to compare them with his original prints, and I rather put my foot it in when I told him I felt that some of the book versions were an improvement on his original prints. Even more so when I commented on the tonal problems of using the ultra-slow b/w films he was working with that were not designed for pictorial photography. They were problems that I experienced too. I still have the signed copy of Nevada he sold at the workshop GEH has a largish collection of his very early work: geh.org/ar/strip87/htmlsrc2/baltz_sld00001.html and there is more information on American Suburb X americansuburbx/channels/l/lewis-baltz
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:14:17 +0000
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