Baldwin Lee
Baldwin Lee (b. 1951) is a Tennessee-based photographer and educator. During his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lee studied with Minor White, and his graduate studies at the Yale School of Art included working under the mentorship of Walker Evans. He first began to photograph in the American South in the early 80's while on a cross-country photo trip with former classmate at Yale Philip Lorca-DiCorcia. Lee is best known for documenting black communities in the South.
His photographic works have been exhibited in venues like the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA); and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta), and are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI); the University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington, KY); the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT); the National Trust for History Preservation (Washington, DC); and the Museum of the City of New York. Lee has been honored with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lee lives and works in Knoxville, TN, where he served as a Professor of Art Emeritus at the University of Tennessee.