Russell Lee (photographer)
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Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of
Lee, c. 1942
Lee, between 1935 and 1942
(L–R) John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, and Roy Stryker, between 1937 and 1944
Lone Driller’s Water Break is a 1939 photograph by Russell Lee, taken as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography program. It depicts a worker drinking from a battered pan during the Texas Oil Boom in Kilgore, Texas — a snapshot of boomtown grit and improvisation.
Father Divine
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Father Divine, also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death in 1965. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was als
Russell Lee (photographer)
…the medium for its own sake. He began recording the people and places around him; among his earliest subjects were Pennsylvanian bootleg mining and the Father Divine cult. In the fall of 1936, during the Great Depression, Lee was hired for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic…
Father Divine in 1938
Father Divine's house in Sayville, New York.
Photo of Father Divine from a FBI document
The International Peace Mission movement established over 100 Heavens in the Northeastern United States.