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Lee Isaacs is an American
photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...
, living and working in
Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County. The population was 200,733 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List ...
. Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US. He has involved himself with many different aspects of photography and photography over the last twenty years. He incorporates processes including
digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...
, polaroid, polaroid transfer,
pinhole photography A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called ''Pinhole (optics), pinhole'')—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects a ...
,
digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...
as well as
color photography Color photography (also spelled as colour photography in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray-monochrome ...
of all sorts and gelatin silver. James Nelson, said, "Using the human torso as a point of departure, Lee Isaacs' digital photographs turn undulating flesh and bone into sand dunes that become beautiful landscapes." As an active member of the Photography Guild of the
Birmingham Museum of Art The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, United States, Amer ...
, Isaacs helps provide support to the museum's photography collection through programming and fund-raising. Through this guild, Isaacs recently participated in the "Pinhole Camera" exhibit at Whatley Drake along with Sylvia Martin, Sonja Rieger and
Wayne Sides Wayne Sides is an American photographer, artist and educator that is best known for his documentary and conceptual art categories of photography and mixed-media art. Early life and education Sides was born in Anniston, Alabama, bordering the ...
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*''"UpSouth,"'' Essays by
bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Be ...
, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan. Poetry by Priscilla Hancock Cooper. raveling exhibition. 76 pp., color illus. 4to (10 x 8 in.), wraps. 1999 University of Alabama Press. *As the photography editor, Isaacs contributed photowork to over 20 editions of the ''Alabama Art Monthly'' published by Agnes as the first statewide art magazine with photospreads, portraits and tableaux work. *Isaacs was the still photographer for the film ''Johnny Flynton.''"Johnny Flynton"
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Lee Isaacs' website


Noles-Ross lists this in her bio.
"Johnny Flynton," 2002

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day


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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day


Photo attribute by Isaacs {{DEFAULTSORT:Isaacs, Lee Living people American portrait photographers Year of birth missing (living people) Artists from Birmingham, Alabama