Central and North London - 08/12/11
Allotment Trip
Pattern
Texture
D.O.F
Lewis Batlz
Lewis Baltz was born on Sptember the 12th, 1945 in California, became well known as a photogropher for his poineering of the New Topographic movement in the late 1970's, a form of American landscape photography which had already spread to Europe by 1975.
Baltz claimed that his work was focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction. He would use industrial buildings as subjects, From my interperatation buildings that were only designed for practical purposes and not astetic.
Baltz interests me because of his innovetive focus on everyday sights insted and making them appear artistic and dramatic, as opposed to just finfing artistic and dramatoc scnes and just using photography as a means of documenting them.
The photos are take slightly below eye-level, in combination with the lack of subjects in these pictures, he achieves a very strong science of stillness and quietness in his landscape pictures.
Baltz's claim that his work was focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction comments on how he also finds geometric pattern order in things deamed to be messy, boring and artistically redundant. In the far left piece for example he uses the lack of pattern and unordelyness of the rocks for example to imply the neatness of the other, i.e the corrigated fence.
Baltz claimed that his work was focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction. He would use industrial buildings as subjects, From my interperatation buildings that were only designed for practical purposes and not astetic.
Baltz interests me because of his innovetive focus on everyday sights insted and making them appear artistic and dramatic, as opposed to just finfing artistic and dramatoc scnes and just using photography as a means of documenting them.
The photos are take slightly below eye-level, in combination with the lack of subjects in these pictures, he achieves a very strong science of stillness and quietness in his landscape pictures.
Baltz's claim that his work was focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction comments on how he also finds geometric pattern order in things deamed to be messy, boring and artistically redundant. In the far left piece for example he uses the lack of pattern and unordelyness of the rocks for example to imply the neatness of the other, i.e the corrigated fence.
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Tilt Shift
Levelers
This leveler spiec was inspired by the work of David Hocke