Bud Lee (photographer)

Bud Lee (born Charles Todd Lee, Jr., January 11, 1941 in White Plains, NY) is a Florida based photojournalist and artist. His photography has been published in "Life", "Esquire", "Rolling Stone", "Town & Country", and "The New York Times Magazine". [ [http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A5347 A Life In Pictures: An article about Bud Lee] ] His photograph of a boy wounded in the Newark riots won him "Life" magazine's 1967 photographer of the year award. [* [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/18/Floridian/A_closeup_with_mortal.shtml A Closeup With Mortality] ]

Biography

After joining the U.S. Army (3rd Armored Division), he began working as a photographer in 1965 for the Stars & Stripes. In 1966 the Department of Defense and the National Press Photographers Association named him U.S. Military Photographer of the Year.

This led to a job as a photojournalist with "Life" magazine where during the summer of 1967 Lee captured images of the civil rights movement in Detroit and Newark. In Newark, he captured the image of a bleeding 12 year old Joe Bass, who had been caught in the cross fire as a police officer shot looter Billy Furr. This image became the cover of "Life" magazine, July 28, 1967, Lee's first.

Over the next seven years Lee would freelance for "Esquire", "Harper's Bazaar", "Town & Country", "Rolling Stone", the "New York Times Sunday Magazine] ", "Vogue", "Mother Jones", "Ms." magazine, London Records, Columbia Records, "The Sunday Times magazine", the "World Telegraph" and numerous other publications.

In 1972, while working for the photography department at the University of Iowa Journalism School, Lee founded the Iowa Photographers' Workshop. After a brief period in L.A. and a long illness, Lee directed his attention to teaching art and filmmaking. After receiving a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he began the Artist Filmmaker in the Schools program in Tampa, FL. During this time, Lee met his wife and started a family.

Lee became an influential and driving force in the Tampa art scene; founding the Artists and Writers Trust and the Florida Photographer's Workshop and co-founded the annual Artists and Writers Ball.

Around 1990, Lee returned to freelance photography full time.

troke

In August 2003, Lee suffered a severe stroke that left his left side paralyzed. While some recovery has occurred, as of September 2008, he is still resident in a nursing home. Lee and his family and friends now champion the causes of people in nursing homes and the issues and problems they face.

Notes

References

* [http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/19/Weekend/Pictures_that_say_1_0.shtml Pictures That Say 1,000 Words]
* [http://www.ncjournalforwomen.com/months/2005_months/jul05/jul05tampanna.htm Picture This by Ana Tampanna]
* [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/18/Floridian/A_closeup_with_mortal.shtml A close-up with mortality]
* [http://news.aol.com/health/article/for-some-nursing-homes-are-a-prison/181916?icid=100214839x1209800622x1200593650 For Some, Nursing Homes Are a Prison]

External links

* [http://www.budleepicturemaker.com/main.htm Bud Lee Picturemaker] (official website)
* [http://www.thesergegroup.com/ Bud Lee Prints and Archives]
* [http://www.budlee.net/ Bud Lee Bulletin]

* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=11076062 Bud Lee on MySpace]