#baldwinlee

Exciting to see 'Baldwin Lee' from @hunterspointpress featured in this Opinion piece by @margaret.renkl @nytimes !!⁠ ⁠ "When Baldwin Lee set out in March 1983 to photograph the American South, he was a stranger in a strange land. The New York-born son of Chinese immigrants, he had moved to Knoxville to establish the photography program at the University of Tennessee. When he left on his first of many photographic trips across the South, he was open to whatever subjects might draw his attention. “I had no agenda, no plan,” he told The New Yorker’s @weistwiley “I took pictures of everything: landscapes, architecture, close-ups, still lifes, pictures at night, people, old, young, white, Black, poor, rich. I just wanted to see.”⁠ ⁠ Along the way, though, he became attuned to the colossal racial injustice still rampant in the American South. He found his subject: Black Southerners living out their daily lives against a backdrop of poverty.⁠ ⁠ Now, nearly 40 years later, his first solo exhibition is on display at the @howardgreenberggallery in NY through Nov. 12. The show coincides with the publication of a newly released monograph of Mr. Lee’s photographs. They represent only a small portion of the nearly 10,000 images Mr. Lee created during the 1980s.…"⁠ ⁠ Read the full piece via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition travels to @josephbellowsgallery & @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠ @baldwinlee1951 @bkulok @teacherbell @caseygerald #baldwinlee #blackamericans #americansouth⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYMFe2u3Rr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It's true. "A new book—the first-ever collection of [Baldwin] Lee’s work—and a solo exhibition in New York make the case that he is one of the great overlooked luminaries of American picture-making."⁠ ⁠ Read @weistwiley on 'Baldwin Lee' — published by @hunterspointpress — and on view @howardgreenberggallery in this week's @newyorkermag via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ Book edited by Barney Kulok. Text by Casey Gerald. Interview by Jessica Bell Brown.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition travels to @josephbellowsgallery & @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠ @baldwinlee1951 @bkulok @teacherbell @caseygerald #baldwinlee #blackamericans #americansouth⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjN-mrZOYEt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

If you didn't know photographer Baldwin Lee before, you will now. On view now @howardgreenberggallery Lee also has a gorgeous, like way gorgeous, new book from @hunterspointpress — launching TONIGHT, Monday, September 26 at 6 PM at @rizzolibookstore Baldwin Lee will appear in conversation with interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature and African-American culture, @imaniperry⁠ ⁠ In 1983, @baldwinlee1951 (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 subject of his pictures was 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 forever transform his perception of his country, its people and himself.⁠ ⁠ The resulting archive from this seven-year period contains nearly 10,000 black-and-white negatives. This monograph, Baldwin Lee, presents a selection of 88 images edited by the photographer @bkulok accompanied by an interview with Lee by the curator @teacherbell and an essay by the writer @caseygerald Arriving almost four decades after Lee began his journey, this publication reveals the artist’s unique commitment to picturing life in America.⁠ ⁠ More about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition travels to @josephbellowsgallery & @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠ #baldwinlee #blackamericans #americansouth⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-scQjJvH6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

TOMORROW! Monday, September 26 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents photographer Baldwin Lee discussing his new monograph from Hunters Point Press with interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature and African-American culture, Imani Perry.⁠ ⁠ "A body of work that is among the most remarkable in American photography of the past half century." —Mark Steinmetz, Time Magazine⁠ ⁠ Register for the event via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Rizzoli Bookstore asks guests to please wear masks at this event. ⁠ Rizzoli Bookstore⁠ 1133 Broadway⁠ New York, NY 10010⁠ ⁠ @baldwinlee1951 @imaniperry⁠ @rizzolibookstore @hunterspointpress @howardgreenberggallery @bkulok @teacherbell @caseygerald @josephbellowsgallery @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠#baldwinlee #imaniperry #blackamericans #americansouth⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci8lcNGDM--/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The 88 photos collected here — by first generation Chinese American @baldwinlee1951 — have been waiting for the right publisher for 40 years. Props to editor/publisher @bkulok of @hunterspointpress ⁠ ⁠ @caseygerald writes: "He grasped, thanks in part to his own upbringing as the son of Chinese immigrants, the oppressive systems and subtle conditioning that shaped the lives of those he met. He saw his camera less as a propaganda machine and more as a tool to testify that these lives, mundane and epic and 'graceful,' mattered.…⁠ ⁠ Lee, like any great pupil, partly came to the South to reject his training, to reject a way of life and artistry he found tragically myopic, that sparked in him a righteous indignation. That is not to say he had a social mission. 'I didn’t go in with some simple pronouncement that I wanted to expose the injustice that Black Americans had to endure,' Lee told me. 'It’s not some kind of dumbass, do-gooder kumbaya.' Nor do his photographs reflect a photographer who wandered the streets of the South as Jack Kerouac wandered the streets of Denver, 'wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.' No, Lee’s photographs are the startling products of a man who knew he didn’t know a goddamn thing—and chose to change that."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ Book launch @rizzolibookstore 9/26⁠ ⁠ Exhibition opening at @howardgreenberggallery 9/22⁠ Exhibition travels to @josephbellowsgallery & @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠ @teacherbell #baldwinlee #blackamericans #americansouth⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CiiZY6FpiHo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Congrats @hunterspointpress ・・・ #Repost ・・・ this morning in the @wsjmag ‘Baldwin Lee’ Edited by Barney Kulok. Text by Casey Gerald. Interview by Jessica Bell Brown. @bkulok @caseygerald @teacherbell #baldwinlee @baldwinlee1951 https://www.instagram.com/p/Chz0scNO1y7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Baby in lap, Plain Dealing, La.,1986. © Baldwin Lee. Thank you Lightbox for this and other good 'uns.