Lee Isaacs

Lee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.

Life and work

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, polaroid, polaroid transfer, pinhole photography, digital as well as color photography of all sorts and gelatin silver.

He has photographed with and for many artists and works with numerous companies. He has been published by Alabama Symphony Orchestra, American Sports Medicine, Time Warner/Southern Living/Cooking Light Magazine, Cumberland School of Law, First Alabama Bank, Krupp International, McWane Inc, MedPartners, Money Magazine, Russell Athletic, Samford University, Southern Company, Standard Deluxe, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

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, 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 Watley Drake along with Sylvia Martin, Sonja Rieger and Wayne Sides.

He participates in Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.

Shows

Isaacs participated in the UPsouth exhibit, curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz, which also featured the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Cole and writer bell hooks, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Mary Ann Sampson, J. M. Walker and Marie Weaver.

Curator Jon Coffelt selected Isaacs' work as one of 17 artists to be part of "Contour: The Definitive Line". The artists were asked to defined the concept of 'contour' and the exhibit was the culmination of this subjective approach. This exhibit also included Clayton Colvin and Sean Slemon.

Isaacs exhibited his work at Agnes, a Birmingham photography gallery from 1992 to 2000, and was photography editor for Alabama Art Monthly, a state-wide magazine established and published through the gallery.

Media

"UpSouth". Essays by bell hooks, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan. Poetry by Priscilla Hancock Cooper. [Traveling 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 a statewide art magazine with photospreads, portraits and tableaux work.

Isaacs was the still photographer for the film Johnny Flynton.