[3] His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".

Baltz's images describe the architecture of the human landscape: offices, factories and parking lots.

His minimalistic photographs in the trilogy Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies, and Politics of Bacteria, picture the void of the other.

[8] He published several books of his work including Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic (Scalo, 1986).

Other photographic series, including Sites of Technology (1989–92), depict the clinical, pristine interiors of hi-tech industries and government research centres, principally in France and Japan.