text: Gordon Baldwin | FADA - Fine Art Dealers Association, the Trusted Gallery Network
  Gordon Baldwin (American, 1939-) was associate curator in the department of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles for many exhibitions, including Grave Testimony: Photographs of the Civil War (1992); Roger Fenton:The Orientalist Suite (1996); Nadar/Warhol; Paris/New York (1999); The Man in the Street, Eugène Atget in Paris (2000); and Gustave Le Gray, Photographer (2002). His publications include Looking at Photographs, A Guide to Technical Terms (1991); Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère (1996); In Focus: Eugène Atget (2000); and Gustave Le Gray, 1820–1884 (2002). Prior to joining the Getty Museum in 1984, Baldwin made architectural drawings as an independent artist, and for his work was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1977–1978. He has also been an actor in a few films, notably appearing in "Himself as Herself," 1967, Gregory Markopoulos; additionally, he was a member of the Warhol Factory in the 1960s. A brief video comment from Gordon about Robert Mapplethorpe: http://sjmusart.org/video/gordon-baldwin