Howard Greenberg Gallery presents Baldwin Lee: New York (1975–1979), an exhibition of large-scale black-and-white photographs. The exhibition brings together photographs Lee made between 1975 and 1979, a formative period in his career, and marks the first time they have been on view.
Raised in New York’s Chinatown, Lee studied photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later with Walker Evans at Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1975. In the years that followed, he returned repeatedly to New York with a 4 × 5 view camera, photographing the city in the early morning, often in winter, when its streets were nearly empty.
Lee approached Manhattan not as a collection of architectural subjects, but as a place shaped by human presence. Human figures rarely appear, yet their presence remains legible in the worn surfaces of streets and buildings, storefronts, and parked cars.
Baldwin Lee
New York (1975–1979)
17 September – 31 October, 2026
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 EAST 57th STREET, SUITE 801
NEW YORK, NY 10022
www.howardgreenberg.com
Baldwin Lee, 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, World Trade Center as Seen from Cortlandt Street, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Times Square, 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Mulberry and Park Streets, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Hasidic Protest, Park Row, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Diner, Varick and Leonard Streets, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Manhattan from Brooklyn, 1975-79
Baldwin Lee, Front Street beneath the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, 1975-79
