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OverviewMore 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Jane Appel , Douglas BrinkleyPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 24.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.90cm Weight: 1.107kg ISBN: 9781477329566ISBN 10: 1477329560 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 02 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents“The Promise: The Coal Mines Administration Photographs of Russell Lee” by Mary Jane Appel and Douglas Brinkley A Note about the Captions Plates Acknowledgments List of Mines Image CreditsReviewsAuthor InformationRussell 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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