American Tenants by Russell Lee, 1937 Aircraft [An] absorbing book… Moore has

[An] absorbing book… Moore has a keen eye for the sort of eloquent detail that enlivens biography

'[I]t occurred to me that if I could get Mark Twain to pose

I've learned a great deal more about the process of colorization and so I've taken to slowly remastering my entire back catalogue

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American Tenants by Russell Lee, 1937 Aircraft [An] absorbing book… Moore hasABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH I cannot help but think Russell Lee either shot the Landers at an opportune moment, or simply staged the tenant farmers to resemble Grant Wood's seminal painting American Gothic, painted less than a decade earlier though separated by half a day by car, Wood's location of the iconic couple is only a state away in Iowa. In Lee's close photograph of the Landers', husband and wife wear a contemporaneous version of farmers' clothing,