Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Lee, Baldwin |
Title |
Columbia, South Carolina |
Medium |
Gelatin silver print |
Date |
1984 |
Description |
Baldwin Lee (Brooklyn 1951; lives and works in Knoxville) Columbia, South Carolina, 1984 Gelatin silver print 14 ¾ x 18 ½ inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2016 gift of Dottie and John Habel in honor of Baldwin Lee Baldwin Lee is a professor emeritus of photography at the University of Tennessee, nationally-exhibited artist, and former assistant to renowned American photographer Walker Evans. He is perhaps best known for his images of African-American life in the South taken during the 1980s. Although working during a time of national economic prosperity, Lee captured scenes of daily life in the rural South that are often startling in their depiction of glaring poverty. |
Catalog Number |
2016.01.01 |
Search Terms |
Silver gelatin prints Gelatin silver prints Black & white photographs Photographs Prints |
Credit line |
Gift of Dottie and John Habel in honor of Baldwin Lee |