Lewis Baltz (Film Photoshoot)

Lewis Baltz is one of the most noted representatives of the 'New Topographics Movement'. This was the influence for later developments of conceptual photography. Baltz's photo series reflects the side effects of industrial civilisation on landscapes which focus on places that are outside, urban wastelands, warehouses and abandoned industrial sites. Baltz's photographs show the similarities between advanced form that are found within art and spatial forms which happen in the world everyday. Baltz's methods involve knowledge of the history of photography in which it positions the photographer as a teacher of seeing things that are visible through reductive gestures. Baltz's was born in Newport, California in 1945. Baltz's studied photography at the Art Institute in san francisco from 1966 - 1969. At the age of 26 he had his first exhibition of photographs in New York.

Below are some of his works which have inspired me the most for my final film shoot.

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These images have inspired me the most of all his photographs because the images look basic but they have a dreamy atmosphere which I really like. These photographs link to order because within all the photographs have linear angles and basic shapes and patterns which give the photograph such simple aesthetics. The photographs are so simple because there are no other subject matter which distracts me from the main focal point of the photograph which is the reason why I wanted to shoot a roll of film with inspiration from Lewis Baltz.

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