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American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits
More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives...
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More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
In 1946 the Truman administration made a promise to striking coal miners: as part of a deal to resume work, the government would sponsor a nationwide survey of health and labor conditions in mining camps. One instrumental member of the survey team was photographer Russell Lee. Lee had made his name during the Depression, when, alongside Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he used his camera to document agrarian life for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Now he trained his lens on miners and their families to show their difficult circumstances despite their essential contributions to the nation's first wave of postwar growth.
American Coal draws from the thousands of photographs that Lee made for the survey--also on view in the US National Archives and Records Administration's exhibition Power & Light--and includes his original, detailed captions as well as an essay by biographer Mary Jane Appel and historian Douglas Brinkley. They place his work in context and illuminate how Lee helped win improved conditions for his subjects through vivid images that captured an array of miners and their communities at work and at play, at church and in school, in moments of joy and struggle, ultimately revealing to their fellow Americans the humanity and resilience of these underrecognized workers.
Author: Mary Jane Appel, Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 1.65d
ISBN: 9781477329566
About the Author
Russell Lee was a prominent American photographer, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration.
Mary Jane Appel is a historian of American social documentary photography and the author of Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy.
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His most recent book is Silent Spring Revolution.
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