The individual images have very limited powers to define the world. But, if individual images can’t define the world, perhaps a…

“The individual images have very limited powers to define the world. But, if individual images can’t define the world, perhaps a sufficient number of images could, at least, surround the world and thereby contain some part of it. My own solution to the problem of the veracity of photographs is to make the series, and not the single image, the unit of work. Grouping photographs allows points to be raised, asserted through repetition, criticized, restructured into sub-categories; in short, a coherent visual syntax can be developed to show a number of facets of the same general subject. The ability of such a group of photographs to describe a subject is comparable to that of non-narrative film.”

– Lewis Baltz in “Lewis Baltz and the Garden of False Reality,” by Wolfgang Scheppe, in Lewis Baltz Candlestick Point [Steidl, 2011] (viagreatleapsideways)