Tag: Corky Lee

  • Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Online Only | n+1 | Ken Chen

    Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Online Only | n+1 | Ken Chen

    Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Ken Chen There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years earlier, the brief window of postwar Asian American radicalism s via n+1: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/ I DID NOT…

  • Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker

    Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker

    Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves His simple passion to document took him everywhere. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/corky-lees-photographs-helped-generations-of-asian-americans-see-themselves Corky Lee often described his life’s work as “photographing Asian Pacific Americans.” It was a simple passion that could take him anywhere. For nearly fifty years, New Yorkers never knew where they might…