"Corky Lee's Asian America": Chinese American Legend Spent 50 Years Seeking "Photographic Justice"
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As we mark Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, we're joined by Mae Ngai to discuss the life and work of legendary Chinese American photographer Corky Lee, who documented the Asian American community in a career that spanned five decades before his death from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Ngai is the co-editor of the new book Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. We also play excerpts of the new documentary Dear Corky by filmmaker Curtis Chin, which features Lee himself discussing his activism and career. Lee "often said his aim in life was to break stereotypes of Asian Americans one photograph at a time. He wanted to make Asian Americans visible when we had been invisible, erased from American history," says Ngai.
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Thank you, Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, for featuring and acknowleging the great Corky Lee who clearly documented so much history through his photographs, a history that is buried and rarely acknowleged by mainstream media. Thank you for helping us and our history be seen. My respect for you all was always quite high, but now it is immense. Very grateful. Thank you. 🤝
This is a large part of history we never get to see.
What a human being, very real story teller. Thank you Amy for featuring Corky Lee for AAPI
excellent interview . Good History . R.I.P Corky Lee.
Awsome! The great Corky Lee. I've learned so much from this man.
Thanks for mentioning this Amy
Can't wait to buy the book.
Bravo DN, this is really a topic much ignored.
Like Corky Lee says 🌬️
Every time I take my camera out of my bag 🎥
I feel like I am drawing a sword to combat injustices and stereotypes 🇻🇳
Amazing man. Thank you for introducing him to those of us who hadn't heard of him before. ♥
What a lovely man and a fantastic interview. Thank you DN.
Great work, Thank you for the photographs.
Great coverage!
Thanks for sharing!
I'm very thankful I got to see this.
surprisingly wonderful material.
Minor correction of a common error. The first U. S. Transcontinental Railroad was formally completed at Promontory SUMMIT, Utah, not Point, which is the spit of land that sticks into The Great Salt Lake from the north, on May 10, 1869. The photograph the story references is the famous official photo of the "Golden Spike" ceremony on that date where a locomotive from each railroad that built the line came together nose-to-nose, with dozens of workers and officials surrounding them. Indeed the common workers were generally left out, the Chinese who blasted through the Sierra Nevada Mtns., and the Irish who built the Union Pacific across the Great Plains.
I keep telling my Grandchildren take lots of Pics so when you get old like me you'll get a smile on your face.
Worthy coverage.
What an incredible man!
RIP Corky.
I'm honored to have met you.
Hhen hhow! (very fine) A treasure-trove of JungMei (ChineseAmerican) Americana!
I need a tissue! What a cool dude!
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invisible Chinese, too true from my own experience in NZ, never knew this midsized city had so many Chinese until the council mercifully organized a midautumn event, when the event was over, they disappeared, becoming invisible again.
Aluminum foil 200ft by 12 inch roll - 16 bucks at Albertsons
what does this have to do with Gaza?
Many aware people knew except brainwashed
Thank. USA medias black out this report, big good important sides of Asian American even were tiny number in America.
Was he related to Bruce Lee ?