Bud Lee
Bud Lee (1941-2015) was a self-taught photographer, who first took up a camera professionally in the military and received fine art training at the National Academy in New York. He had an idiosyncratic eye unconstrained by the conventions of documentary photography. Between 1967 and 1974, he worked on assignment for Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and many other publications, finding himself at the center of some of the biggest stories of the time. An outsider who got insider access, his work is poetic and painterly, occasionally droll and irreverent. The War Is Here is the first book to collect his photographs.
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With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee’s dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967—a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and rage across the country, whose reverberations we still feel today.
US Release: May 16, 2023 • UK Release: May 22, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781736309360 • 192 pages