Baldwin Lee

"One of the great overlooked luminaries of American picture-making." -The New Yorker

In 1983, Baldwin Lee (born 1951) left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his 4 × 5 view camera and set out on the first of a series of road trips to photograph the American South. The subjects of his pictures were Black Americans: at home, at work and at play, in the street and in nature. This project would consume Lee--a first-generation Chinese American--for the remainder of that decade, and it would f...