Baldwin LeeIn 1983, Baldwin Lee (b. 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 were Black Americans: at home, at work, and at play, in the street, and among nature. This project would consume Leea first generation Chinese Americanfor the remainder of that decade, and it would forever transform his perception of his country,

seen from within

land migration

A very dark blue

mapping the sources of his visual production

For indoor and low light conditions

In 2001 I met Grazia Neri and joined her agency

calligraphic clusters

drawing readers into a world steeped in mysticism

where the tiny and the huge

This book illuminates his thoughts

and groundbreaking photographs

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48