Baldwin Lee
Baldwin Lee, .
Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net
Baldwin Lee is part Chinese and part Black. He was born in 1952 and grew up in Chinatown where his family had a noodle factory. His education was at MIT and Yale where he studied under two photographic greats: Minor White and Walker Evans.
In 1982, he became an art professor at the University of Tennessee where he founded the University’s photography program.
He then decided to take a photographic tour of the Deep South, covering 2,000 miles over the course of ten years.
He travelled the south, visiting poor black communities predominantly. He was deeply moved by what he documented during those years 1982 to 1989. During those years he amassed thousands of negatives, but he stopped his serious work and continued his 30 year career as a college professor of photography.
His work has been shown in shows around the world; currently in London. He also has a current showing in New Orleans at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. That runs until Feb 16, 2025.
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Baldwin Lee
Paul Robeson: “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”. Robeson once performed in the Great Auditorium. Blogfinger reported on that concert.