Author: Arthur Drooker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826341877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
Pie Town Revisited
Author: Arthur Drooker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826341877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826341877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy
Author: Mary Jane Appel
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the most influential documentary photographers in American history. The most prolific photographer of the Great Depression, Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images. With this compulsively readable and definitive biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel finally uncovers Lee’s rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood beginnings to intrepid years of activism and pioneering creativity, through the incredible body of work he left behind. Born in the quintessential turn-of-the-century small town of Ottawa, Illinois, in 1903, Lee grew up in a wealthy family riddled with tragedy. He trained in college to become a chemical engineer, but was quickly drawn to Greenwich Village, where he developed an interest in social change and the arts. In 1935, the charismatic bohemian picked up a camera and a year later walked into the office of Roy Stryker, head of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA), setting in motion a new life trajectory. The Historical Section aimed to capture rural poverty and the New Deal programs designed to abolish it. But Stryker imagined a much broader pictorial sourcebook for America, and no one on his legendary team—including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, among others—would be more dedicated to reaching this goal than Russell Lee. As Appel demonstrates, Stryker and Lee developed a fascinating symbiotic relationship that resulted in a massive and complex breadth of work. Living out of his car from the fall of 1936 to mid-1942, Lee crisscrossed America’s back roads more than any photographer of his era. During this time, he shot 19,000 negatives that were captioned and printed—more than twice that of any other FSA photographer. He captured arresting images of sweeping dust storms and devastating floods, and chronicled the World War II home front and the last gasp of a small-town America that was inexorably vanishing, all the while focusing prophetically on issues like segregation and climate change, decades before they became national concerns. Meticulously weaving previously unseen letters and diaries, Appel brilliantly reveals why Lee’s profile has remained obscured, while his contemporaries became broadly celebrated. With more than 100 images spread throughout, Russell Lee speaks not only to the complexity of a pioneering documentary photographer’s work but to a seminal American moment captured viscerally like never before.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the most influential documentary photographers in American history. The most prolific photographer of the Great Depression, Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images. With this compulsively readable and definitive biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel finally uncovers Lee’s rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood beginnings to intrepid years of activism and pioneering creativity, through the incredible body of work he left behind. Born in the quintessential turn-of-the-century small town of Ottawa, Illinois, in 1903, Lee grew up in a wealthy family riddled with tragedy. He trained in college to become a chemical engineer, but was quickly drawn to Greenwich Village, where he developed an interest in social change and the arts. In 1935, the charismatic bohemian picked up a camera and a year later walked into the office of Roy Stryker, head of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA), setting in motion a new life trajectory. The Historical Section aimed to capture rural poverty and the New Deal programs designed to abolish it. But Stryker imagined a much broader pictorial sourcebook for America, and no one on his legendary team—including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, among others—would be more dedicated to reaching this goal than Russell Lee. As Appel demonstrates, Stryker and Lee developed a fascinating symbiotic relationship that resulted in a massive and complex breadth of work. Living out of his car from the fall of 1936 to mid-1942, Lee crisscrossed America’s back roads more than any photographer of his era. During this time, he shot 19,000 negatives that were captioned and printed—more than twice that of any other FSA photographer. He captured arresting images of sweeping dust storms and devastating floods, and chronicled the World War II home front and the last gasp of a small-town America that was inexorably vanishing, all the while focusing prophetically on issues like segregation and climate change, decades before they became national concerns. Meticulously weaving previously unseen letters and diaries, Appel brilliantly reveals why Lee’s profile has remained obscured, while his contemporaries became broadly celebrated. With more than 100 images spread throughout, Russell Lee speaks not only to the complexity of a pioneering documentary photographer’s work but to a seminal American moment captured viscerally like never before.
Pie Town
Author: Daniel Fremgen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Under the Piñon Tree
Author: Jerry D. Thompson
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826364608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Raised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, Under the Piñon Tree traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II, when Thompson’s family first homesteaded the area. Those interested in storytelling and history will enjoy this richly detailed account. Under the Piñon Tree is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexico and the Southwest.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826364608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Raised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, Under the Piñon Tree traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II, when Thompson’s family first homesteaded the area. Those interested in storytelling and history will enjoy this richly detailed account. Under the Piñon Tree is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexico and the Southwest.
Pie Town Woman
Author: Joan Myers
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Russell Lee in Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Russell Lee in Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940.
From the Top of the Mountain
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catron County (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catron County (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Pie Town Oral History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Pie Town video tapes contain oral histories of some of the original homesteaders of Pie Town, New Mexico. The interviews concern the values and experiences of the past and contrast them to the present (1988) day Pie Town. The story of Pie Town, New Mexico and the surrounding communities in Catron County in the 1920's and 30's is explored.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Pie Town video tapes contain oral histories of some of the original homesteaders of Pie Town, New Mexico. The interviews concern the values and experiences of the past and contrast them to the present (1988) day Pie Town. The story of Pie Town, New Mexico and the surrounding communities in Catron County in the 1920's and 30's is explored.
Pie Town
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615635941
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615635941
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Welcome Back to Pie Town
Author: Lynne Hinton
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062045126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life in Pie Town should be sweet. There are pies in the diner again, the church has been rebuilt, and single mother Trina Lockhart has found a home for herself and her baby daughter. Trina has even found love with Raymond Twinhorse, who has returned from Afghanistan after being injured and is trying to form a real family with her. However, Pie Town now feels like a totally different place to Raymond. Perhaps it’s he who has changed, due to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. But when an accident befalls Trina and Raymond is implicated in a crime, it will take the entire community of Pie Town to clear his name, find him help, and welcome him back into the fold.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062045126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life in Pie Town should be sweet. There are pies in the diner again, the church has been rebuilt, and single mother Trina Lockhart has found a home for herself and her baby daughter. Trina has even found love with Raymond Twinhorse, who has returned from Afghanistan after being injured and is trying to form a real family with her. However, Pie Town now feels like a totally different place to Raymond. Perhaps it’s he who has changed, due to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. But when an accident befalls Trina and Raymond is implicated in a crime, it will take the entire community of Pie Town to clear his name, find him help, and welcome him back into the fold.
My Pie Town
Author: Debbie Grossman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesbians in art
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesbians in art
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description