Artist Research and Analysis 

Lewis Baltz 

Part of the 1970 new art minimal pieces, his early work such as this were seen as empty stages as they were abandoned work sites. His work gave the idea that the landscape is treated by its owners and by builders as mere material waiting to be shaped. He also published Nevada in 1978 and Park City in 1980 which hold photos of the long- suffering American Landscape scarred by new habitation. 

More artists in this era-

This was also famous photography in the same era as Baltz's work, by Charles Sheeler who used urban architecture to inspire his work and industrial facilities. He made compositions by overlapping two or more photographic negatives of the same subject and then transferring the resulting, synthesized image to canvas.