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He was a camera: Russell Lee is best known for his enduring images of American life during the Great Depression, but his rarely seen later photographs--many of them from Texas--show an artist whose powers of observation only sharpened with time.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A YEAR AFTER HE BOUGHT HIS FIRST CAMERA, Russell Lee commenced the assignment that has ensured his immortality, working alongside fellow icons Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to create the Farm Security Administration's gritty photographic portrait of the Great Depression. Lee's legendary stint with the FSA ended shortly after World War II began, and there history pretty much closes the book on a career that in fact was just getting...

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