Russell Lee (1903, Ottawa, Illinois - 1986, Austin, Texas) was an American photographer. Lee had trained as a chemical engineer, and in the fall of 1936 became a member of the team of photographers assembled under Roy Stryker for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration documentation project. Lee is responsible for some of the iconic images produced by the FSA, including photographic studies of San Augustine, Texas in 1939, and Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940. Wikipedia
Biographical Sketch Russell Lee first came to national prominence in the 1930's, when he worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration. www.cimarronkansas.net/russelllee.htm
When taking photographs during the Great Depression, Russell Lee liked to get real with his subjects. His candor encouraged strangers to let him into their lives, during the Depression and across his nearly 50-year career. Lee believed his primary respons www.utexas.edu/features/2007/lee/
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Russell Lee is best known for his enduring images of American life during the Great Depression, but his rarely seen later photographsmany of them from Texasshow an artist whose powers of observation only sharpened with time. www.texasmonthly.com/2007-04-01/feature5.php?661624390
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Russell Lee. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_%28photographer%29
