Shreveport, Louisiana
1986
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Walls, Mississippi - Bicycles
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Columbia, South Carolina
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Barber
1983
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Norcross, Georgia
1986
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Richland, Georgia
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Boyle, Mississippi - Whispering
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Tunica, Mississippi
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Mobile, Alabama
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Big Letters
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Rosedale, Mississippi - Screen
1986
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Garnett, South Carolina
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
Rosedale, Mississippi - Hanging Baby
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
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Vicksburg, Mississippi - Alan's Living Room
1983
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Children Holding Hands
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Bessemer, Alabama
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Mobile, Alabama
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Alan Pulling Friend
1983
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
New Orleans, Louisiana
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Monroe, Louisiana - Consecutive Twins
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
New Orleans, Louisiana - Grandfather, Daughter, Grandson
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Monroe, Louisiana - Mother and Children
1985
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Plain Dealing, Louisiana - Baby in Lap
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Walls, Mississippi - Flare
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1986
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Monroe, Louisiana
1986
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Columbia, South Carolina
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
Hughs, Arkansas
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Lula, Mississippi - Woman in Hat
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Georgetown, Georgia
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
1984
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Young Man and Boy at Dusk
1983
vintage gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches
Baldwin Lee’s Extraordinary Pictures from the American South, by Chris Wiley, October 2, 2022
It’s not often that a body of photography is hoisted up from obscurity and straight into the canon. When this happens, the images in question are often the work of a self-taught master, such as the compendious Arkansas portraitist Mike Disfarmer or the Chicago nanny and eagle-eyed street photographer Vivian Maier, both of whose œuvres had been left to molder until they were rescued by keen connoisseurs. But the work of Baldwin Lee, a graduate of M.I.T., where he studied with Minor White, and of Yale, where he studied with Walker Evans, has been hiding in plain sight.
LESSONS FROM BLACK AND CHINESE RELATIONS IN THE DEEP SOUTH: BALDWIN LEE, ‘MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE,’ AND THE LIMITS OF UPWARD MOBILITY.
By Imani Perry, The Atlantic, June 10, 2022
Mississippi Triangle is a 1983 documentary about the Black, white, and Chinese communities in the Mississippi Delta region, which I rewatched the other day, prompted by a message from a friend. It is one of a plethora of works in film and art that show, contrary to popular perception, that the South has never had just two racial groups.
