Baldwin Lee—who established the photography program at the University of Tennessee in 1982 and taught there for over three decades— gravitated towards Black neighborhoods, “where indicators of success were replaced with the stigma of neglect.”
in London. Lee talked to The Daily Beast about racism across eras, the exuberance of Black hair, and quitting while you’re ahead.begins by stating there are 88 plates from a selection of… ten thousand! How did you land on the edit for this book?I sent him a folder of 20 pictures I wanted to have in, and then he picked the rest, so I've just been a passenger watching it unfold.
There's something very impressive about operating without a strategy. Especially because strategy can warp what you do. It’s rare to be interested in something without a “purpose” for it—to just purely follow your interest. But she echoed what you said: that it's much better for it to happen at this point, in the late innings of my life. I was freed from having to think about “what the gallery wants next.” It was not in the equation. I would not have worked well with that pressure. I was able to pursue what I wanted to pursue on my own terms.
That's an apt parallel! Were there other creative influences—things outside of photography—that informed your work?I've always had the ability to be within a moment and also outside of the moment simultaneously. I remember going to arthouse theaters in Manhattan—Bertolucci’s movies, or whatever—and being a terrible member of the audience because everybody would be totally focused on the screen. But I would always, like, see the exit signs. I’d always see the heads in front of me.
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