From Lewis Baltz's Candlestick Point-- a book of stark photographs of a ravaged, ugly land that is far removed from an heroic vision of America. This is the wasteland.

This is conceptual rigorous work premised on groups of images or a series. As a body of work---not individual images---it involves a different kind of thinking to much contemporary art photography---Baltz is more closely aligned with conceptual art than with traditional medium of photographic culture with its parochial, provincial culture that was suffocating.