Pie Town Farmer by Russell Lee, 1940 Cars – The New York Times

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imparting a great deal of historical authenticity

Egon Schiele’s Reclining Half-Clothed Girl (1911) is a portrait of defiance

and looks out of the canvas with wide eyes

Pie Town Farmer by Russell Lee, 1940 Cars – The New York TimesABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH Throughout June 1940, FSA photographer Russell Lee stayed in Pie Town, New Mexico, documenting everyday life and the community. The photographs, many of them in genuine colour, have become an iconic series of photographs. It continues to astound me how intensely garish and saturated colours are in the 1940s, particularly in the near ubiquitous advertising for tobacco of various kinds. For this photograph, I had something I