Russel Lee

Russel Lee

           

                  Russel Lee is best known for his series on Farm Security Administration and the incarceration of japanese americans. In these series he criticized the FSA agency for their work and exposed the wrongness of the incarcerations of the japanese americans to the public. Lee was by far the most thorough of the FSA photographers, producing more than 5000 images while he was with the agency. Russel Lee was an influential artist in the history of photography in that he showed and displayed how influential photos can be in exposing the truth to the public. In 1935 Lee began to photograph and record the conditions of miners in Pennsylvania.  In 1936 he photographed and documented the Jersey Housing Project.