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 By F. Jack Hurley Originally published in IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, September, 1973 To try to capsulize the work of Russell Lee into a short article is an essentially impossible task. The man has been active in the field of photography so long and in so many different ways. There are certain themes, however, which do assert themselves. Russell Lee is a…  …otographers and I was given a spot over there. We had a place to go. We were adding photographers and it wasn’t long before we were in action. I was the boss. I had about four or five photographers, Arthur Rothstein and Russell Lee, the engineer who was down at the University of Texas, and Dorothea Lange, who didn’t come. She stayed in California, and she didn’t come for some time. H: Was Walker Evans one of the early ones? Yes,…  Timothy Egan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and writer for The New York Times, has written the introduction to “The Photographs of Ben Shahn,” one of three Library of Congress-published books in the “Fields of Vision” series. He led a discussion of the photos of the Farm Security Administration focusing on the three photographers in the series: Ben Shahn, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott. …  Smokin’Jo, 1995 By Russell Ferguson “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” Ezra Pound Wolfgang Tillmans has consistently pushed back against whatever perceptions of his work seem most current. If he is thought of as a casual, snapshot photographer, he produces a book of formal portraits. If he is thought of as a photographer of people, he works on View from Above, 2003, with no people visi… WOLFGANG TILLMANS: “Russell Ferguson on Wolfgang Tillmans” (2005) | ||||||||||||||
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