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Looking at the U.S., 1957-1986 is an unusual look at cultural and political life in the United States over nearly three decades of change and stability. It combines the individual projects of photographers Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss as well as their combined 13-year documentary collaboration on three different cultural frontiers in Texas.

Frederick Baldwin was born in Switzerland where his father served as American Consul. Baldwin saw combat as a Marine in the Korea war. 
After graduating from Columbia College in 1956, he began documenting life in the Arctic. He recorded the Civil Rights movement in Georgia in 1963 before going to Sarawak, Malaysia as Peace Corps Director in 1964. In 1966, he did magazine work in India and Afghanistan as well as on rural poverty in the southern U.S. In 1972, Baldwin teamed with Wendy Watriss to begin a major documentary on Texas. 
In 1983, he co-founded FotoFest with Wendy Watriss and remains Chairman today.

Wendy Watriss was born in San Francisco and later moved to the East Coast of the U.S. and Europe, where she spent much of her childhood. After graduating with honors from New York University, she became a newspaper reporter for political affairs in Florida and then worked for public television in New York. 
In 1970, she began freelancing as a photographer and writer. In 1982, she won World Press and Oskar Barnack awards for her work on Agent Orange. She co-founded FotoFest with Fred Baldwin in 1983 and began work as FotoFest senior curator and Artistic Director in 1990.

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