There's an interesting article on Baldwin Lee written by Mark Steinmetz (also a great photographer) last February on Time's Light Box (http://time.com/3694626/photographin...mericas-south/) that I just came across today. Steinmetz calls Lee's work in the US South "among the most remarkable in American photography of the past half century".
If you go to Chrysler Museum of Art website, there's is a set of Lee's photographs along with some audio narration about the background of the photos, here:
It's a bit awkward - you have to open the link to the audio on another tab so you can listen to it and look at the photo at the same time - but Lee's photos are wonderful 4x5 work.
Apparently, Lee has a memoir, though I don't think it's been published yet.
Excellent, I have to admit I was bit nonplussed when Baldwin audited one of my wife’s grad classes a few years back—a model of modesty and gentility, as one might suspect. Otherwise while on the topic of Knoxville artists, some of y’all might be interested in the burgeoning reputation of Beauford Delaney—a portrait painter in James Baldwin’s circle whose work is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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