Sunday, November 9, 2008
Russell Lee?
I'm doing my paper on a fella named Russell Lee. He was born in Ottawa, Illinois in 1903, and died in Austin, Texas i 1986. He trained as a chemical engineer, and in the fall of 1936 he became a member of the team of photographers put together under Roy Stryker for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (originally named the Resettlement 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. After the FSA was cut off from funding in 1943, and after his own service in World War II, Lee continued to work under Stryker, producing public relations photographs for Standard Oil of New Jersey. Some 80,000 of those pictures have been donated by Exxon Corporation to theUniversity of Louisville in Kentucky. Lee moved to Austin, Texas in 1947 and became the first instructor of photography at the University of Texas in 1965. This guy Russell Lee is responsible for the series of photographs I'm doing my report on. Sadly, this is all the information i could dig up on him.
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