October 2024
Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Columbia University Libraries and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race invite you to a conversation about Corky Lee’s Asian America, a stunning retrospective of the photographer's life’s work—a selection of the best photographs from his vast collection, from his start in New York’s Chinatown in the 1970s to his coverage of diverse Asian American communities across the country until his untimely passing in 2021. Known throughout his lifetime as the “undisputed, unofficial Asian American photographer laureate,” the late photojournalist Corky Lee documented Asian…
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