Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]

 ...you don’t put an object in a museum because it’s beautiful; an object is beautiful because you put it in a museum. Everything is photogenic once it has been photographed. 
 I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. 
 I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. 
 I never had any profound loyalty to the idea of photography as a medium but simply as the most efficient way of making or recording an image. 
 It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film. 
 I think being a photographer is a little like being a whore: if you’re really really good at it, nobody will call you that. 
 I’m really skeptical about the idea of photographic history. Photography needs to be seen in a much broader context, certainly within the context of art, and in even broader social and cultural contexts beyond that. 
 I didn’t like the world of photography. I didn’t like the culture of photography. I feel the same way today. (2011) 
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