Russell lee photography biography book

Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy

Photographer: Russell Lee

By Russell Lee, Mary Jane Appel

Publisher: Liveright

Publication date: 2021

Print length: 384 pages

Language: English

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Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the most influential documentary photographers in American history.

The most prolific photographer of the Great Depression, Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images.

With this compulsively readable and definitive biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel finally uncovers Lee’s rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood beginnings to intrepid years of activism and pioneering creativity, through the incredible body of work he left behind.

Born in the quintessential turn-of-the-century small town of Ottawa, Illinois, in 1903, Lee grew up in a wealthy family riddled with tragedy.

He trained in college to become a