# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:28.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-lee"
name: "Russell Lee"
slug: "russell-lee"
description: "Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures. Lee was known for his technical innovation, particularly his use of direct flash photography to capture indoor environments that other photographers of the era avoided."
tagline: "American photographer and photojournalist (1903–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russell_W._Lee%2C_Farm_Security_Administration%2C_between_1934_and_1942.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1903-07-21"
deathDate: "1986-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             1.639097744360902
  historical:           8.768253333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c7f57aa4-0458-45a2-9892-6dd047de0f32"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "راسيل لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "راسيل لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee"
    title: "Russell Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee"
    title: "Russell Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)"
    title: "Russell Lee (photographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(fot%C3%B3grafo)"
    title: "Russell Lee (fotógrafo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee"
    title: "Russell Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Lee"
    title: "Russel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee"
    title: "Russell Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q514628"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump