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Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, July 1941
There we are, and I don't know
where we are
being taken, but
I hope it's not too far
from where we started
to look down into the gently
sloping sparsely wooded
green valley, and see
the far dry mountains
fading into vague towns
of cloud, in the stillness
of distance
where we are
being taken, but
I hope it's not too far
from where we started
to look down into the gently
sloping sparsely wooded
green valley, and see
the far dry mountains
fading into vague towns
of cloud, in the stillness
of distance
Farming land as seen from Whitebird Hill, Idaho County, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, July 1941
Highway scene, Idaho County, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, July 1941
Main Street, Twin Falls, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, May 1941
Sandlot baseball game, Twin Falls, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, May 1941
Irrigated farming land with mountains surrounding, Canyon County, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, June 1941
Bicycle racks, Pocatello, Banning County, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, July 1942
Russell Lee photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
Love this!
ReplyDeleteLike Nin, I loved traveling the peaks and valleys of this, especially today, a day which will live in infamy. (I forget; did somebody use that line before?) All of the Lees are wonderful, but my favorites are the shots in second and third position. As soon as I read these (words and images), I thought of the chorus of the lovely Roger McGuinn song (on "Cardiff Rose") "Take Me Away." Curtis
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nin and Curtis.
ReplyDeleteLee did a lot of work in Idaho. He must have loved the skies. But there was a vague purpose too of getting the job done. The job was largely made up of what proposed itself as the photographer drove along.
The irrigation projects were one of the great FSA contributions. Twin Falls was one of the first "planned communities". The girl with her back to us in the bottom shot lives in a Relocation Camp for Japanese.