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"Russell Lee Photographs"
Yarborough campaign onlookers, Mount Vernon, Texas, 1954. Russell Lee Photograph Collection, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
"The legacy of Russell Lee's documentary photography is profound," said Dr. Don Carleton, director of the Center for American History. "From his work with the photographic unit of the Federal Farm Security Administration during the Depression, his controversial study of spanish-speaking people in Texas, and his political work as a photographer for the Texas Observer, Russell evidenced a singular compassion for the human condition."
Exhibit
"Russell Lee Photographs" is an exhibit by the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This traveling exhibit of photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee draws from the magnificent archive that he donated to the Center just prior to his death in 1986. The exhibit offers a rare glimpse into the remarkably accomplished images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947 through 1977.
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Exhibit format
38 framed black and white photographs with identification labels
3 text panels
Outdoor banner (9 X 12 ft.) for promotional purposes
Wall space required: approximately 126 linear feet