Fred Baldwin was born in 1928 in Switzerland, where his father served as a U.S. diplomat. After earning his B.A. degree from Columbia College, New York in 1956, he began a freelance photography career which continued until 1987. Baldwin worked for Audubon, LIFE, Natio nal Geographic, GEO, Camera (Switzerland), Bunte, STERN, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time - Life Books, Natural History, Town and Country, Science Digest, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times and others.