Spring 2006 Photographer Page Featuring
LYNN BALDWIN

With this brochure, the Houston Seminar is inaugurating a collaboration with photographers whose work will enhance our brochure cover and our website. This semester’s image, entitled “Miss Liberty,” comes from the Statue of Liberty Project of Lynn Baldwin, a Houston photographer. In this project, Baldwin examines the widespread use of the Statue of Liberty in popular culture, photographing her as he finds her on everything from cereal boxes to Las Vegas signs, from his IRS refund check to a neighborhood fence.

We have selected Lynn Baldwin's Statue of Liberty project for this brochure because his fresh and unique perspective on one of our most familiar icons, like a number of our Houston Seminar courses this semester, invites us to contemplate democracy and freedom more deeply.

Additional images from the collection. Click any image to see the full size version.

All images copyrighted.

Lynn Baldwin began working professionally as a photographer in the U.S. Navy and continued his career in commercial, medical and editorial photography.  He headed the Department of Biomedical Communication at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas until he retired in 1993.  His scientific and medical photography has been exhibited in the U.S. and Canada. 

Baldwin's creative photography has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Houston Center for Photography, Galveston Arts Center, Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, and the Richard Wilson Arts Center, Nantlle, Wales.  His photographs are held in private collections as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.  His Statue of Liberty series was selected as the feature for the Op Ed page of the New York Times on July 4, 2001.

Mr. Baldwin is a member of the board of directors of the Texas Photographic Society.  He can be reached at (713) 551-9203 or by clicking to send him email Lynn Baldwin.