Corky Lee Remembered for Documenting Asian America
COVID-19 claims legendary photographer who chronicled Asian American experience.
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Corky Lee with his photo of Muhammad Ali in 2008 at a career retrospective held at the Chinese American Museum (CAM) and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. (MARIO GERSHOM REYES/Rafu Shimpo)
By ELLEN ENDO, Rafu Shimpo
Corky Lee, a New York-based photojournalist whose work spanned five decades and covered subjects from the Asian American Movement in the 1970s to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, has passed away at the age of 73 due to complications from COVID-19.
A self-taught photographer, Lee is remembered for his ability to capture many of America’s most defining moments, and his work appeared in