In this episode of The Crit House Masters, we look at Lewis Baltz and his place in photographic history.

Lewis Baltz was a master of capturing the essence of manufactured structures and landscapes in stark black-and-white images. In the early 1970s, his austere and monochrome pictures of suburban development helped redefine American landscape photography. Baltz was part of the New Topographics movement, sharing an aesthetic that drew on contemporary art and rejected the romanticism of traditional landscape photography.

We are honored to have two prominent photographers and educators on The Crit House to discuss Baltz's work, Michael Hintlian and Neal Rantoul.

Neal Rantoul is an artist and educator. He was the head of the Photo Program at Northeastern University for 30 years. He taught at Harvard University. He now focuses on doing new work and bringing earlier work to a national and international audience.

https://www.nealrantoul.com
IG - @nealrantoulstudio

Michael Hintlian is a photographer educated at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He has taught at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the New England School of Photography, The New School for Social Research, and the Parsons School of Design. His work has appeared in publications internationally and is widely exhibited and collected. His book is Digging: The Workers of Boston's Big Dig.

https://www.hintlian.com/index
IG - @hintlian_1