Aperture's editorial preview of the autumn season, 14 Photography Exhibitions to See This Fall, names Baldwin Lee: New York (1975–1979) at Howard Greenberg Gallery among the season's essential viewing. The exhibition, on view at the gallery's 41 East 57th Street space from 18 September to 31 October 2026, presents large-scale black-and-white photographs made between 1975 and 1979 and exhibited for the first time. Lee grew up in New York's Chinatown and studied with Walker Evans at Yale in the early 1970s. Returning to the city in the years that followed, he photographed its empty early-morning streets with a 4x5 camera, working in a register that recalls Thomas Struth's similarly unpeopled streetscapes of the same period. Printed in 2025 for this presentation, the images document a city since transformed: seemingly abandoned Financial District lofts beneath the Twin Towers, sidewalks and skylines that no longer exist. The gallery had previously shown Lee's now-celebrated large-format portraits made on road trips through the American South in the 1980s. This exhibition reaches back to an earlier, formative chapter, catching the photographer before that body of work existed. The Aperture selection places the show alongside the season's major photography moments, from Taryn Simon's Father Country I Do Love You at the Guggenheim and Roy DeCarava's the sound i saw at David Zwirner in Los Angeles to the FotoFocus biennial's eighth edition in Cincinnati. For a medium that constantly rewrites the city, the appeal is double: the photographs are both a young artist's apprenticeship and a record of New York before its own erasures. The roundup positions the exhibition as required viewing for anyone tracking how photography holds a disappearing urban fabric.