Post World War II Texas In the years following World War II, until the mid-1960s, Russell Lee photographed extensively in his new, adopted home state of Texas. Concurrent with his work for Standard Oil and J& L Steel, he contributed to magazines such as Fortune, and The New York Times Magazine and was an associate staff member of Magnum. His work also appeared frequently in The Texas Observer. More often than not, the assignments he accepted were socially oriented. In 1950, Lee worked in conjunction with the University of Texas to document the living conditions and health-problems of Spanish-speaking people in Texas. In the mid-1950s, Lee documented conditions at several state mental institutions in Texas. Also throughout the 1950s, and as a result of Jean Lee’s involvement in Texas politics, Russell Lee photographed many Texas political figures and their campaigns, including those of Ralph Yarborough and J. Edwin Smith. Also in his oeuvre from this period are other photographic documents of post war Texas life and its inhabitants: from famous Texan authors such as J. Frank Dobie and Hart Still well, to unknown double muggers at the Texas Cowboy Reunion. Unless commissioned work, most of these negatives and rights to them are held at the Barker Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. The bulk of Russell Lee’s postwar Texas photographs conclude around 1965, when he accepted a position teaching photography at the University of Texas. Although he was still somewhat photographically active after 1965, his students, not his own work, became his focus until his retirement in 1973. Browse ... . Russell Lee’s photographs of Post World War II Texas