American photographer Russell Lee (1903–86). This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8d26773.

When coal was king, coal miners risked their lives to fuel America. Photographer Russell Lee captured the hardships and privations (as well as moments of joy) in America's mining communities in ...

Lee saw photography as a manifestation of our shared humanity. It can freeze a moment in time, revealing an emotion that bonds us all: love, fear, hope, sadness, joy, anger, surprise.

So let’s open today slowly, with Russell Lee’s mid-century photography of America’s poor workers, pulled together by Perkins. Here, Lee captures a group of coal miners just before going ...

RUSSELL LEE, 83, some of whose photographs of poor people of the 1930s are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died Thursday. As one of five photographers hired by the Farm Security ...