Fred Baldwin was born in 1928 in Switzerland, where his father
served as a U.S. diplomat. After earning his B.A. degree from
Columbia College, New York in 1956, he began a freelance
photography career which continued until 1987. Baldwin worked for
Audubon, LIFE, Natio nal Geographic, GEO, Camera (Switzerland),
Bunte, STERN, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time - Life Books,
Natural History, Town and Country, Science Digest, Smithsonian
Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times and others.
Since 1983 Baldwin has been serving as Chairman of FotoFest
(Houston), which he co - founded with Wendy Watriss and Petra
Benteler.
In 2008 Freedom's March on the Civil Right's Movement was published
in conjunction with an exhibit of his photographs taken in 1963 -
1964, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. In 2009
Looking at the US 1957 - 1986 was published by Mets & Schilt
Publishers, Amsterdam, in conjunction with Wendy Watriss and with
an exhibit of their collaborative work at Le Musée de la
Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium.
In 2013 The Center for Photography at Woodstock awarded Fred
Baldwin and Wendy Watriss the Lifetime achievement Award for their
work in photography.
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