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Boyd Lewis
Boyd Lewis was something of a fixture
on the scene of Atlanta journalism before leaving for Los Angeles
in 1997 to teach middle school English. In the nearly 30 years
he lived in Atlanta, he
worked as a reporter and columnist for the black and alternative
press and took up freelance news photography. His photos were
published in Time, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan and Atlanta
magazines. His first exhibit was in 1972 at the old Carnegie
library in downtown and featured his photojournalism of life in
black Atlanta. Lewis began taking pictures for the city's acclaimed
hippie weekly paper, The Great Speckled Bird in 1973
and he wrote a political commentary column under the pen name
Perry Noya. Lewis was hired by Creative Loafing as its
first news editor in 1975 and he continued photojournalism and
wrote columns on photography and local politics under (again)
the pen name of The Citymouse. In the summer of 1976, he traveled
throughout the rural and small town landscapes of America during
the Bicentennial year and documented life on farms, ranches and
the badlands of the nation in a series of photographs exhibited
at the Atlanta History Center. By 1977, his photography tapered
off as he began a 17 year career in public radio news and documentary
production for WABE FM90 Atlanta. After two years writing news
scripts for CNN, Lewis left Atlanta. His first photo exhibit at
Mason Murer Fine Art was in September, 2007. Lewis currently lives
with his wife Deborah in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California
and teaches seventh and eighth grade English at Sun Valley Middle
School, Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Boyd Lewis
Get on the Good Foot, 1973
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