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Working as Walker Evans’s darkroom assistant while at Yale’s MFA program, Baldwin Lee handled and printed negatives from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Although the families photographed in Alabama’s Hale County in the 1930s never received a copy of that book, Lee would be sure to mail prints to those who posed for his own 4-by-5-inch view camera. Raised in New York as a child of Chinese immigrants, Lee embarked on extensive drives from 1983 to 1990 to photograph his new home of Tennessee, ...

How Chris Killip captured a country in the throes of deindustrialisation – and created a different way of seeing

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Think you know these artists’ creative outputs? Meet Franz Kafka, illustrator; Zelda Fitzgerald, paper-doll crafter; and other famous moonlighters

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Baldwin Lee toured the Deep South throughout the 1980s where he captured Black Americans on a 4×5 large format camera.

As a new exhibition of his work opens in New York, Baldwin Lee talks about capturing Black American life across the South in the 1980s – and why he eventually put the camera down

Artists are often generous in acknowledging those who have influenced them. Photographers are no exception, whether a direct visual lineage is evident

<p>Many white photographers documented the south with a paternalistic frame on their Black subjects. The New York-born son of Chinese immigrants, Lee proceeded from the premise that he knew nothing about the post-Jim Crow South and had to learn. </p>

“He called this morning and asked me to send him some money. (I wish I could understand how a man could love two women!)”