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Dear Mr. Picasso: An Illustrated Love Affair with freedom
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Fred Baldwin

Dear Mr. Picasso

An Illustrated Love Affair with freedom

Fred Baldwin

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English
Schilt Publishing b.v.
06 August 2019
Individual photographers
Fred Baldwin's life took a turn in the direction of the extraordinary when he decided to interview and

photograph the sometimes difficult Pablo Picasso. Baldwin, in his last year of college, delivered a letter

with his own drawings to the artist. This made Picasso laugh and opened his door.

Baldwin's life changed. He followed his dream, used his imagination, overcame fear, and acted

- now he

felt could accomplish anything. This account takes the reader to high adventure worldwide, but also to

disaster and failure. This illustrated love affair with freedom shows how a camera became a passport to

the world. But the trip started much earlier.

The son of an American diplomat, who died when Baldwin was five, the book describes being raised by

strong aristocratic southern women. A string of disasters associated with six elite boarding schools and

one university led to his exile to work in his u ncle's factory in Savannah, Georgia. Baldwin escaped by

joining the Marines and was immediately s hipped to North Korea in 1950, where he was w ounded and

decorated twice.

After Korea, Baldwin moved to Paris but

shortly after returned to a junior college i n Georgia, won a

scholarship to Harvard and then transferred to Columbia, where he decided to go to Europe to celebrate

his last summer vacation of freedom.

Meeting with Picasso inspired Baldwin to teach himself

photography by visiting MoMa and every photo gallery in New York. But New York was expensive, so

Baldwin moved to Savannah, where he learned to survive by photographing

local children.

It worked, but

i n spite of financial success, Baldwin wanted to be a photojournalist. By chance he spent a day an d a night with the Ku Klux Klan, then headed for Scandinavia and the Arctic. What followed were picture

stories about reindeer migrations, Nobel Prize coverage, underwater pictures of cod fishing in Arctic

Norway, polar bear expeditions. In 1963, Baldwin join ed the Civil Rights Movement, photographing

Martin Luther King. A two - year stint as Peace Corps director in Borneo was followed by more

photojournalism in India and Afghanistan.

The stories in this book are often laced with self - deprecating humour, a mec hanism that Baldwin had

developed early as a survival tool.
By:  
Imprint:   Schilt Publishing b.v.
Weight:   1.580kg
ISBN:   9789053309186
ISBN 10:   9053309187
Pages:   832
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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