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Apr 10

Book reviews and interviews

Gil Asakawa reviews the book for Center for Asian American Media https://caamedia.org/blog/2024/04/03/vision-of-photographer-corky-lee-th...

Mar 17

NATIONAL BOOK TOUR

UPDATED APRIL 9 See below for book launch events April - June. Sponsored by Corky Lee Estate and friends. Programs will feature...

Mar 17

Curtis Chin's DEAR CORKY will air on PBS in May

Curtis's brilliant doc on Corky--shot entirely with Corky's own voice--will be one of PBS's new American Master's short film series. All...

Mar 17

AsAm News previews Corky's book

AsAm News reviews Corky's amazing career and talks with book co-editor Mae Ngai https://asamnews.com/2024/03/09/aapi-photographer-book-pu...

Feb 11

National Book Tour

UPDATED MARCH 15 The Corky Lee Estate and Friends are organizing a national tour to launch the publication of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN AMERICA...

Feb 2

DocumentedNY honors Corky

Published on Jan. 26, for the third anniversary of Corky's passing, a tribute and an early review of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN AMERICA...

Jan 26

Where's Corky? Thoughts on the third anniversary of his passing

By John Lee, Corky's brother and estate executor for the late Corky Lee Last year, concurrent with the premiere of a long-awaited...

Jan 17

Corky Lee profiled in NYS MLK program

Governor Kathy Hochul's Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute featured CORKY LEE as an emblem of RESILIENCE. Virgo Lee narrates in the video...

Dec 26, 2023

NATIONAL BOOK TOUR

Updated Feb. 7, 2024 The Corky Lee Estate and Friends are organizing a national tour to launch the publication of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN...

Dec 26, 2023

Kinding Sindaw exhibit to feature Corky's photos

Corky was a longtime friend and photographer of Kinding Sindaw, the dance performance group dedicated to the indigenous cultures of the...

Dec 26, 2023

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul will honor Corky on King Day

New York's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program will feature a special tribute to Corky Lee. January 8, 2024, at 6 pm, in Albany at the...

Nov 14, 2023

Corky Lee Way unveiled in NYC Chinatown

Thank you to Think!Chinatown, OCA, and others who led the campaign to get Mosco Street in Chinatown co-named Corky Lee Way. A large...

Oct 8, 2023

Curtis's book launch!

Curtis Chin, director of award winning documentary, Dear Corky, will be at the Strand bookstore on October 17 to launch is new book,...

Oct 8, 2023

"Corky Lee Way"

...will be officially unveiled on Sunday October 22, 2023, at the corner of Mott and Mosco in NYC Chinatown. Come down for the sign...

Jun 30, 2023

Corky's photo of anti-police brutality march to be on permanent display at Obama Center

The Obama Center, the official museum of President Barack Obama in Chicago, will feature Corky's iconic photo of the 1975 march in New...

Jun 30, 2023

Corky's Railroad photo to be on permanent display at Promontory Point

Corky's iconic re-enactment (2014) of the "golden spike" photo at Promontory Point, Utah, will be on permanent display at the National...

Jun 30, 2023

"Corky Lee Way" coming in NYC Chinatown

The New York City Council passed an omnibus co-street naming bill on June 22, 2023, which includes co-naming Mosco Street in Chinatown...

May 31, 2023

WEST: poetry inspired by the transcontinental railroad

In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental...

May 29, 2023

Corky Lee's Asian America: now available for preorder!

CORKY LEE'S ASIAN AMERICA: FIFTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC JUSTICE By Corky Lee Edited by Chee Wang Ng and Mae Ngai From Clarkson...

May 29, 2023

L.A. fourth-grade art project inspired by Corky Lee

Artist Gary San Angel reports that he led a "10-week school-based curriculum for 4th-grade students on Corky Lee. The students got to...