About Baldwin Lee—the project’s creator
Baldwin Lee is a photographer who received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and his master’s degree from Yale University. His photographs are in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of the City of New York, Haverford College,
University of Michigan Art Museum and University of Kentucky Art Museum. He is the recipient of
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lee is a professor of art who has taught at the University of Tennessee since 1982. He has won the
University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, and the University of
Tennessee Provost’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a Faculty Associate at the
Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and a
Faculty Fellow at the
Center for the Study of War and Society.
He has previously authored
Through the Lens of Ed Westcott, a catalog about the photographs made by
Ed Westcott, the official photographer of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Lee organized the Knoxville Museum of Art exhibition,
Vision, Language and Influence, a comparative study
of the photographs of Walker Evans, Eudora Welty and his own photographs of the South.
Through A Soldier’s Eye is grateful for the support from Carl Pierce, Executive Director of the
Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius,
Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at
the University of Tennessee.
For more information send an
to Baldwin Lee, Professor of the School of Art, University of Tennessee.
To upload photos to be considered in this project, use the
link
at the top of the page.