A signed copy

RUSSELL LEE PHOTOGRAPHER

F. Jack Hurley

11.5 x 9 softcover book with 208 pages and 167 b&w plates. Introduction by Robert Coles. This is the first book length retrospective of his life and work and remains the definitive work on Lee.

Under the direction of Roy Stryker, Russell Lee covered New Mexico for The Farm SecurityAdminisration (FSA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the office of War Administration (OWI). Lee was part of the deep pool of photography talent assembled by the Farm Security Administration's Roy Stryker. Along with Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, Carl Mydans and Marion Post Wolcott, Lee chronicled the plight of the disenfranchised during the Great Depression. Several of his images have become symonymous for both the FSA and the Depression.

RUSSELL LEE PHOTOGRAPHER is a collection of 20+ years work from Lee's career in documentary photography, which took off in 1936 when he joined the staff of Roy Stryker's group of photographers in the Resettlement Administration (later named the Farm Security Administration). Lee's camera captured, completely without sentimentality, the sadness and the wonderful human dignity of the lives of "the poorest third of the nation's farmers .. sharecroppers and tenants and the hired hands, the migrant picker and stoop laborers." Plain people .. factory workers, small town residents, miners, ordinary G.I.s .. remained a major interest during World War II, in his travels to Europe and China, and while working for Stryker as an industrial photographer. [Freitag 6711].

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