Background
Joe Gwin Phillips was born on September 23, 1935, in Mckenzie, Tennessee, United States.
The University of Memphis (UofM)
Joe Gwin Phillips was born on September 23, 1935, in Mckenzie, Tennessee, United States.
Joe Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and a Master of Arts in 1963 from Memphis State University, Tennessee.
In the 1980s Joe Phillips was teaching photography at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, also Phillips taught at the University of Central Arkansas (1976-1978) and at Birmingham University School in Alabama (1969-1973). He was with the United States Defense Department from 1964 to 1969.