Anthony Lee
- Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History
- Chair of Art History & Architectural Studies

Anthony W. Lee is a scholar of modernist art and the history of photography. His courses canvas the variety of modernisms and photographic practices throughout Europe and North America, with special attention to experiments in the period between 1830 and 1980. His many books are concerned with artistic adventures in the context of cultural and political encounters, and include Painting on the Left; Picturing Chinatown, which won both the Smithsonian’s Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship and the Cultural Studies Book Prize given by the Association of Asian American Studies; A Shoemaker’s Story, which won the New York Book Show Award for its Scholarly category; The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography; and several books bringing together different scholars in the interdisciplinary study of camerawork. He is the founder and editor of the distinguished series Defining Moments in Photography, published by the University of California Press. He is currently at work on a project about Pictorialism, social reform, and the historical meanings of dreaming.
Areas of Expertise
modern art and the history of photography
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., Holy Cross College