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That scarcity makes his images even more remarkable for the access Lee gives us to the past, and for the complexity they add to the cultural conversation today.
Whatever happened everywhere else in the country and in the world was far away and out of sight, out of mind. The images by Lee, a first generation Chinese American, show an intimate portrayal of daily life in the American South that is considered to be among the most remarkable in the last half century. As Bell Brown astutely notes in her conversation with Lee, the American South is “a place that cannot run from its history”. Baldwin Lee , published by Hunters Point Press, is a collection of 88 black-and-white photographs, mainly portraits. Unwittingly, this project culminated in a set of personal circumstances that could never be duplicated again,” he told Bell Brown.BL My next publication will be my musings and memories of photography: the history and theory of photography, teaching photography, analysis of important photographs, and stories about photographers I have known. Baldwin Lee has a pedigreed photography background: in the early seventies, he studied with Minor White at MIT, and thereafter with Walker Evans at Yale University.
A flooded field with a house plopped in the middle leaves you fearful that the family inside needs to survive on what it yields.Since then, Lee has happily worked as a professor of art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.