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American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits -- Mary Jane Appel - Hardcover

Description: 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. Book and Mortar Record Store American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits -- Mary Jane Appel 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: 2.50lbs Size: 10.10h x 10.10w x 0.80d 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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Label: University of Texas Press

Artist: Appel, Mary Jane

Album: American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits (Bill and Alice Wright Photo

Book Title: American Coal : Russell Lee Portraits

Number of Pages: 160 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2024

Topic: United States / 20th Century, Photojournalism, General

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Photography, History

Item Weight: 39 Oz

Author: Douglas Brinkley, Mary Jane Appel

Item Length: 10.1 in

Item Width: 10.1 in

Format: Hardcover

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