Lewis Baltz is one of the key photographer to come out of the group the New Topographic. his work looks at the from of normal bulidings he did a serise photographying the tract houses of califournia showing this new west they recated to what ansel adams was showing he showed this prestine sulbulime landscape Lewis Baltzs was intrested in showing a “man-altered landscape”(W Jenkins, 1975) of tract houses which seems to be built in the middle of no where as well as the loneliness and isolation that attends this rapidly growing suburbia
They develop a new Western landscape aesthetic. A counter-aesthetic that showed the West as they saw it not glorifying it as the old school seemed to. They seemed to have a dispassionate and unsentimental view on the land. Walker Evans was the first photographer to really see the landscape in this way with his work for the F.S.A and can been seen as a huge influence to the group and their aesthetics. Ware photographers like Adams, Stieglitz and Steichen created these very romantic images showing this great expanse the work of the New Topographic was decidedly ironic.
The New Topographic photographers commanded the attention of the viewer thought typologies, but through the extensiveness of the projects and a detached objectivity. No people appear in Lewis Baltzs series ‘The New Industrial parks near Irvine, California’ even though that human presents is implied as it the function of buildings centrally. this is somthing that i want to keep with my work i dont want any pressence of humans in the images but i want it to be implayed as its the centural focouse of these spaces is for human interaction also the spaces mean nothing with out are intertation of the spaces and the lines and what they mean
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