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ID: 500036938 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500036938			Record Type: Person

Lee, Russell (American photographer, 1903-1986)

Note: Lee trained as a chemical engineer at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from 1921 to 1925. From 1929 to 1931, Lee studied painting at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. From 1929 to 1935, he was an independent painter in New York City, New York, and in San Francisco, California. From 1936 to 1942, Lee was a staff photographer under Roy E. Stryker at the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, in Washington, D.C. From 1941 to 1942, Lee was a photographer for the Office of War Information in the Far East and Europe. From 1943 to 1945, he served as a reconnaissance photographer and Head of the Still Picture Section, United States Army Air Transport Command Overseas Technical Unit, also in Europe. From 1946 to 1947, Lee worked as a Medical Report Photographer for the Coal Mines Administration, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. He produced an extensive survey of health and living conditions of bituminous coal miners. From 1946 to 1965, Lee worked as an industrial magazine photographer, and from 1965 to 1986, he worked as an independent photographer. From 1965 to 1973, Lee was an instructor of photography at the University of Texas, Austin.

Names:
	Lee, Russell (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	Russell Lee (V,display)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	painter
	teacher
	photojournalist

Gender: male

Events:

	active:		1929-1935 California (United States) (state)
	active:		1929-1935 New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
	active:		1936-1942 Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)
	active:		ca. 1946 - 1986 Austin (Travis county, Texas, United States) (inhabited place)

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Biographies:


	(American photographer, 1903-1986) ..... [BHA Preferred] (American photographer, teacher and painter; born Ottawa (Illinois, United States), 1903; died Austin (Texas, United States), 1986) ..... [CCA] (American photographer, 1903-1986) ..... [Grove Art] (artist, 1903-1986) ..... [GRL] (American photographer, 1903-1986) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Lee, Russell ........	[BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 85306734
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
..........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 378700

Russell Lee ........	[CCA]
........................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database


Note:
English	..........	[CCA]
	..........	Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
	..........	Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
	..........	Plattner, Roy Stryker: U.S.A. (1983)

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