Best Selling Books by Russell Lee

Russell Lee (1903-1986) began working as a photographer for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1936. He continued with the organization for the next six years as it became the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later part of the Office of War Information (OWI). His tenure was longer than any other photographer for the organization and his output the most prolific. He shot over 25,000 of the 175,000 negatives in the FSA–OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection. While his most iconic shots have been in the public consciousness for almost a century and the FSA-OWI collections have now been digitized and are available for free, the vast majority of his work will likely remain unknown to the general public unless curated into more finite and convenient experiences. The aim of this series of books is to provide those experiences and allow the reader to explore different aspects of Russell Lee’s monumental work in depth. This first book presents all 183 color images by Russell Lee that are part of the FSA–OWI Color Photographs Collection. They move with Lee all over the country as his assignments lead him to a rural dance in Oklahoma, a peach orchard in Colorado, a harvest in Pie Town, New Mexico, the building of the Shasta dam, a scrap depot in Montana, and a Japanese American internment camp in California.

A brief biography of the photographer followed by his photographs of people and places.

Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Collection at the Prints and Photograph Division, Library of Congress.

"The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. 86 of the 250 photographs taken by Lee for the Farm Security Administration, July 1940. Remarkable portrait of the villagers, village life, adobe construction, handicrafts. Essays on Lee and the villages by Wroth (former curator of Taylor Museum), Charles L. Briggs (Vassar), Alan Fern (National Portrait Gallery).The thoughtfulness and thoroughness that went into the development of this book make it extraordinarily valuable"--Fern Lyon, New Mexico Magazine, from alibris.com.

For Luigi Mangione''s arraignment the press line in the 100 Centre Street courthouse began at 8 am on December 23, 2024. But members of the public began outside at 4:30 am. Inner City Press was there, as it had been for the Federal presentment on December 19. Today, with more time to organize - there had been a "Free Luigi" poster complete with QR code - there were more people. I think he should get a fair trial, a woman from New Jersey said from behind her mask. I''m here because of the cost of health insurance, said another. Over the weekend, a woman had been burned to death after being set on in fire on a subway train in Coney Island. A migrant from Guatemala had been arrested. Inner City Press might catch his arraignment over in Brooklyn. Or would that case, too, be Federalized? Surely that defendant would have no supporters. Inner City Press had reported on defendants being sentenced to 20 years or more in prison, for lesser crimes than murder, with no one else in the courtroom gallery. This assassination on video had struck a nerve, more so after the Crime Stoppers photos were released. It was a tale of comparative crimes, of dual prosecutions. This is the first book of a series. Lone Wolf. Not so fast… Remain seated! The Court Security Officer in the white shift, the same one as from the Daniel Penny trial, shouts at the journalists and the Luigi Mangione supporters. The prosecutors follow Mangione out of the courtroom. Kurt Wheelock is trying to get his laptop to fall asleep. The orange light remains lit, though. "OK, clear out, this courtroom is being closed!" Kurt waits for the elevator with the other journalists. The female supporters, it seems, will ride on other cars. In the 100 Centre Street lobby, a prisoner is being led in by a policeman, his hands cuffed in front of him. Stepping through the revolving doors, Kurt can see a crowd across the street. There is chanting about health care; there is a guy standing on a ladder with a Palestinian flag above him. Kurt wants to film it. He takes out his phone, moves his NYC Press Pass to the outside of his jacket. The cops in front of the courthouse barely look at him. He crosses the street, into the press pen in front of the demonstrators. "Free Luigi!" they chant. And that sign again, "Luigi Freed Us." From what? Brian Thompson? Kurt does a livestream, and shoots a six second video to put up later. His hands are freezing. It''s time to return to SDNY. He''s going to upload this book, this first book, and publish it before nightfall. Kurt designs the cover, does one final spell check. Just after noon he uploads it. It will take some hours, two to four he estimates based on the past. He does not want to stay staring at the laptop screen. He heads out, up to his barber by the United Nations, the one he started going to before the UN threw him out. It seems obligatory to make small talk with barbers, at least this one. He asks about Luigi Mangione. "Oh the CEO killer," the barber says. "What an asshole." The barber is also against congestion pricing. Is there a correlation? With a new short haircut Kurt takes the subway back downtown. The book is "Under review," longer than that usually takes. Kurt is getting jump. He goes to his City gym in the housing projects, checks his phone on the way back to the courthouse. Nothing. Under review. It is nearly eight pm when something happens. Kurt gets an email alert: one of your books cannot be published. He signs up to check his bookshelves. There it is: Blocked. Why this book? Kurt emails back; he opens up a chat box. A person, or bot, calling themselves Willow tells him his email is being reviewed. But nothing. Later he asks for a call back, and a woman with a Missouri area code says the review is ongoing, a ticket has been opened. By midnight they tell him: Your publishing account has been suspended. He cannot reach any of his books. More back and forth, this time with a sense of desperation. A content "investigator" from India tells him his content has been deemed "offensive." He will have to swear an affirmation he will never do it again. But what is it? What is so offensive? Kurt must look for alternatives. The biggest, the Search behemoth, has books too. At least e-books. New era? Diddy Detained was up - now Luigi Mangione Lone Wolf? If you have it, the answer is yes - and there will be more.

Many wanted the Diddy trial to name the names of freak-off politicians and business titans, dirtied in Diddy''s white parties in the Hamptons. By the end of Week 5 it hasn''t happened. Instead, there have been court order to be sure not to mention the gender of Jane Doe''s child, nor the identity of its father, a well-known rapper who is a rival of Combs. One rapper replied on Instagram then took it down. In the courtroom, Jane Doe''s lawyer told Judge Subramanian she would submit a hit-list of publishers, influencers, maybe podcasts and bloggers, who she said violated his order. Next came Combs'' Teny Geragos, asking Jane about the house in the gated community, now with four broken doors, outside a backyard for her XXXXX - The gender was said, and once typed could not be retracted. But there was the threat. Part of the day was lost; reconstructed By week''s end long stays in the robing room, about Jane''s time in a Las Vegas hotel room at the freaky birthday party of another iconic rapper and his girlfriend or wife, who brought in Anton to perform and stood watching. Then on the last day of Week 5, Kanye West showed up... And at day''s end, a long session in a sealed courtroom. And the final Government witnesses: Judge Subramaian: So finally, who are the Government''s last witnesses? AUSA Comey: Summary witnesses Sankar and two others, personal assistant Brendan Paul, and a law enforcement office. We believe we will close next week So, Week 6 next...

... Uptown word was spreading that the Shoota mighta gone to the dark side. The news didn''t come through the lawyer Lorenzo, who should have told Candido. Lorenzo was getting paid to know the court system and not let stuff like this happen. No, one of their sources, a Bronx Dominion associate who had even gotten the tattoo but still didn''t have a turf, had seen when the Shoota was put into the SHU. He used a cell phone, illegal in the MCC, to call Candido. "This a recorded call?" Candido asked. "Nah, I bought the phone off a guard. I seen your boy Shoota in here. They put him in the SHU but he ain''t fought nobody. So, you know...." Candido knew. Now, what to do about it?

"Just imagine when Bieber comes to testify at Diddy''s trial," a court watcher was saying in late November 2024. But things weren''t at that stage yet. The fight now was about bail, Sean Combs'' third attempt to be released on bond. Would this third time be the charm? Meanwhile, volley of John and Jane Doe civil lawsuits against Combs were being filed in SDNY, by the Buzbee firm in Houston. Some judges demanded that the plaintiff''s real name be disclosed, even dismissed the case for not following the rules. But cases were refiled, with other judges, and proceeded. There were demand letters going out too, not yet in any docket. It was all headed to a showdown, in May if not before. This is a book in what will be an ongoing series. They charged only one crime Enough to hold Diddy for a time Staking much on Victim-1 But his four lawyers chipped away A dozen more, at the courthouse door Tales of violence, New York to Vegas Some judges demanding names Observing it Kurt Wheelock wrote Streamed in rain in Worth Street pen How would it end?

For the arrival at the Diddy trial of his nemesis Scott Mescudi, whose Porsche was burned up in Los Angeles, Homeland Security officers and US Marshals stood out on Worth Street. Upstairs before the jurors came in, the talk of Kid Cudi''s dog. There was some laughter, as there had been earlier in Week 2 when the male dancer known as The Punisher used the trial to promote his e.d. book, with "Freezer Meat" in the title. Trying to keep up, between references to Prince''s party to Tesla and Obama''s face imprinted onto drugs was not easy. But this was US v. Sean Combs and I''d covering it since the night before the arrest and indictment. So I''d push forward, including pushing to get more of the filings in the case put into the public docket. * * * Amid the Diddy hoopla and some asking to see the freak-off videos, if only as a pool, his now-ten lawyers and the prosecutors are both refusing to make public their filings to the court. But they are judicial documents. Inner City Press filed: "This morning before the jury came in, both the Government and the defense referred to multiple communications to the Court about evidentiary and other issues. But these are not in the public docket on PACER. "This application / letter motion argues that many if not all of these are judicial documents to which the public and press have a right of access. They should be put in the docket, now and going forward in this trial." Dkt. 336. And Judge Subramanian agrees - three times. But let''s see what Week 3 of the trial brings...

When the jury sent out a note on the afternoon of July 1 in US v. Sean Combs, many wondered if it would be another request for testimony, as the jury had asked about Cassie Ventura in the morning. Or perhaps another complaint about not following Judge Subramanian''s instructions, as Juror 25 had been complained about on June 30. But soon Sean Combs, whispered to by his lawyer, was sitting near catatonic at the defense table, staring into space. Judge Subramanian came out and recounted that the jury had reached verdicts on counts 2 through 5, but not on Count 1, racketeering conspiracy. On that, there were "unpersuadable opinions on both sides." There was discussion of giving a so-called Allen charge, to go back and try again; finally it was decided to send the jurors home with the instruction they come in on July 2 at 9 am and continue deliberating on Count 1. And what might that consist of? They had already asked, on their first day of deliberations, for the law about drug distribution, one of the RICO predicates. Might they ask about the other possible predicates, from arson to kidnapping to obstruction of justice to, yes, sex trafficking? Logically, if they had reached a guilty verdict on sex trafficking, at least as to Cassie Ventura if not the witness known as Jane, the RICO question would be whether others had conspired with Combs for that sex trafficking. His travel agent made travel arrangements; his security had kept her in a hotel room so that no one would see her swollen face after he beat here (that was one of two California kidnapping alleged). Why had the said there were "unpersuadable opinions" against the RICO charge, without even asking for evidence about those predicates? Having covering the case since Combs'' arrest and presentment, I was asked to go on a true crime podcast on the night of July 1. What could I say? It would be irresponsible to claim to know what the four verdicts were. But one of them? Instead I focused on how Combs reacted, or seemed to react, staring into space. Diddy Do It? Well, two of five, according to the jury… And bail would be denied, but expedited sentencing offered - the story, blow by blow, is here. Book 9 about the sentencing is not before.

After the evidence closed in US v Sean Combs, each side presented it the jury, each on their down day. On June 26, Day 21 of the trial, Assistant US Attorney Slavik emphasized just how easy it is to convict under RICO: only two of the many predicate acts presented, and both can be in the same category. She presented a menu, from sex trafficking to arson, kidnapping to obstruction, drugs to bribery. On June 27 Comb''s lead counsel Marc Agnifilo said Sean inspired people, that Mia loved him and lied about being raped - as, he said, did Cassie. That he called a love story, telling the jurors they would cry in deliberations if they read, really read, text message before the two. Then he read some raunchy ones, apologizing theatrically to his mother. There remained an insistence on anonymity for Jane and for Mia, despite the defense having played a video with her face unredacted. The threats for reporting on them remained hanging over the trial; it remained unclear if Jane''s lawyer even did submit the hit-list she said she would. Still things were coming to a close; the jurors would have three days to deliberate, even four if they came in on July 3. Inner City Press will publish Week 8 with whatever notes and answers, and with the final verdict. Diddy Do It? Soon the jury will speak.

The Diddy Trial Begins Sean Combs is dressed up in a sweater and has nine lawyers. Cassie Ventura is eight and a half months pregnant, sitting in the witness box, being asked to read her own text messages setting up freak offs, many with an escort named Jules. Videos are shown to the jurors, who wear headphones, but not to the public or the press. Likewise, both sides lawyers talk about filings to Judge Arun Subramanian that are nowhere to be found in the public docket on PACER. I have been covering the case since the indictment. In fact, I reported the presentment the night before it happened. But now the trial has taken over the courthouse, and both sides of Worth Street out in front of it. It is troubling that there is no other way. I file a challenge to the confidentiality, first by email to the judge and parties, then into the docket. And I live tweet as fast as I can, and respond to as many question as possible. Some other accounts simply steal the tweets; one site spoofs mine and bring Nicki Minaj into the mix. (As I''m requested, I sent out a clarifying tweet, but decline to sue. Have I told you I don''t like lawsuit? Even as I appeal sealing in the OneCoin crypto case to the Second Circuit). After my second book about the Diddy case was blocked on one platform, I moved the second to another platform, which now also has this third, which covers week one. What will come next? Watch Inner City Press.

The first day of the fourth week of Sean Combs trial featured the defense putting up as an exhibit a video of pseudonymous victim-witness "Mia" sending a birthday greeting to Combs. It was shown with Mia''s face entirely visible; it was presented as having been entered into evidence. It was then, and only then, linked to. Then in open court:: Assistant US Attorney: ... media outlet reporting Mia''s true identity. We''ll send that to the Court. It was reported on X yesterday with reference to the birthday video exhibit that was admitted, containing a link to that exhibit online showing that witness''s true identity. THE COURT: I''m happy to hear if there is any step that you''d like the Court to take. AUSA: The government would respectfully request that the Court consider directing that outlet to remove the post and consider whether any further additional steps should be taken, such as barring individuals who break the Court''s order from attending this trial either in this courtroom or in other courtrooms. THE COURT: Do you want to put in a submission along those lines? I''ll certainly consider it. AUSA: Sure, we can. THE COURT: I''ll do that Do what? It has been committed that such a submission has not been / will not be made. And then, voluntary compliance. But this? In the fifth day of the fourth week of Sean Combs'' trial, counsel to pseudonymous witness "Jane" spoke in order court of identifying those seeking to identify here client - in a letter she would submit ex parte to the judge, seeking sanctions without providing any notice or opportunity to be heard. Some were quick to justify this by saying if the outlets were named, it would only amplify them. But at what point does the gap between what is out there, and what is and can be reported from inside, because too wide, a credibility gap? Perhaps we will find out in week five. And that, closing and deliberations. This series will continue.

For a public trial of a global icon, there are too many threats for reporting what actually happens. During the testimony of an anonymous witness given the name "Mia," they showed on the public screen to the gallery a video of her wishing Sean Combs a happy birthday. Her face was entirely visible, not blurred. So Inner City Press, live-tweeting, noted it, linking to the exact video publicly available on YouTube. The next day the prosecutor said a publication on X had violated the rules and she wanted Judge Arun Subramanian to order it taken down, and those responsible barred from the courtroom and even other courtrooms. The judge didn''t say No, as we should. Instead he said, write me a letter. Would that even be in the public docket? In Week 1 of the trial Inner City Press filed an application that everything go into the docket, and not on the long delay that had been the case so far. Judge Subramanian responded with an order that each side could be in their submission, no in real time, but at the end of the week. Inner City Press wrote and tweeted about the flaws with that. Judge Subramanian issued a second order, that the rules applicable to all other trials and cases did in fact apply here: real time docketing, with redactions if necessary. But it hasn''t happened. Next came the anonymous witness named Jane, whose identity was widely known or became so once she described the father of her child as a well-known rapper who is a rival of Combs. But when defense lawyer Teny Geragos asked "Jane" if the house in the LA gated community had a yard for her son, Jane said, You should say "my child." Inner City Press, live tweeting testimony actually said in court, had written "son." Now there were the semi-sealed issues of the jurors. Juror 6, whose voir dire Inner City Press had live tweeted (prison staffer, hip hop fan) was now the subject of sealed questioning. Another juror was questioned, but this was not supposed to be reported. It was. On June 17 at 8:15 am - before the 8:30 am starting time used for weeks - Judge Subramanian denounced the publication and leak, saying he would investigate including, if it came to it, seizing and reviewing cell phones. With a warrant? Cell phones of reporters? It was not clear. And so it is, reporting on US v. Sean Combs. There is a growing credibility gap between reporters full time in the courthouse and what they are being allowed to report, and what others online can and do say. As Week Six of the US v. Sean Combs trial ended, the end drew near, with Combs'' lawyer Agnifilo saying the defense will be only one or two days. Unlike for example Sam Bankman-Fried, with whom Combs conferred in the MDC, Combs would not testify on his own behalf. While Brian Steel managed to turn Brendan "I am not a drug mule" Paul into a defense witness, as least in part, rather like Derek Ferguson, the charts about company arranged and paid travel across state lines to freak-offs, which in some cases led to violence / coercion continued to accumulate. Would it be enough for a RICO conviction - one that would stand up on appeal? If not pardon were forthcoming? Inner City Press will stay on the case - through books on Week 7 and Week 8 - and beyond.

In the Sean Combs trial''s third week, some came to be seen and came to be heard but not seen, certainly not portrayed. We were told to call her Mia. But the prosecutors elicited from her which Combs Enterprises entity she co-founded and knowing her name was not difficult. But we did not report it. Her story, haltingly told, was depressing. She had wanted to be arts and was soon in a cult or work-farm, kept awake for five days straight, told not to leave Combs'' house, to not lock the door to the bedroom. He came in and raped her. It happened again on a jet plane. What could Brian Steel do with this? One imagined them focused on the RICO charge, saying it hadn''t been made out, no matter the involvement of D-Roc and Uncle Paulie, and those who swept the hotel room. Capricorn Clark was questioned with a lie detector for five days in an empty office on Broadway, threatened with be thrown in the East River. But still she went back, the defense pointed out. Still she came back and asked for job. Reference was made to an autistic son. It was depressing. Deonte Nash called Maurene Comey "Girl;" he came in on high platformed shoes and talked over Xavier Donaldson''s questions. He had appeared for one of his trial-prep sessions with Maurene while flying high, memorialized in the 3500. But what about Mia? That question echoes, as through an empty office building on Broadway. Rikers Island faced the East River; the MDC faces the harbor. This case is Federal. Then Combs'' Steel asked again and again about gushing Instagram posts she read out in a troublingly chipper voice. People didn''t post their low points back then, she said. And now? At week''s end, as Mia was cross examined about posts in which her face was blurred, Trump was asked about, and dodged on, a possible pardon for Combs. See last entry in this book.

A highly detailed book on Balanchine technique, written by one of his former principal dancers, now a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet. When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. Now, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine''s legacy to the future of dance. Profusely illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine''s ideas on technique and performance. From the Preface At Balanchine''s instigation I began to teach in the early 1960s while still a member of the corps de ballet . . . One day, as I was adjusting a tendu front in a class of nine-year-olds, Balanchine walked into the studio with Lincoln Kirstein, the school''s longtime president. As they left, I heard Mr. B say to Lincoln, "I knew she would get down on the floor and fix feet . . ." I believed in Balanchine. Seeing and then dancing in his ballets made me believe in his aesthetic. Sharing the life of his company and school made me believe in his approach to work and to life in general. In my teaching, in my lectures, in my writing, and in videos on the technique, I have tried to convey not only his aesthetic, but also his beliefs about how to work, how to deal with each other, and how to live . . . My purpose in writing this book is to record what I learned from him about ballet dancing and teaching ballet, insofar as that is possible on paper . . . By helping others deepen their understanding of Balanchine''s art, I hope to contribute in a small way to the preservation of his unique and extraordinary legacy.

The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook is an original cookbook by, for, and about the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

The story of the first Christmas tree in medieval Germany. This version comes with restored and newly added illustrations.

A pretty little book on the domesticated birds with good descriptions, advice on management, breeding, feeding, and good color photos. No bibliography. As much a history of aviation as a biography of Sikorsky. Many illustrations and diagrams support the text. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR