Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his work as part of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the 1930s and 1940s. The FSA was a New Deal agency established to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression. Lee was one of a group of photographers, including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, who the FSA sent out to document everyday life in the United States.
On September 1938, Lee was on assignment with the FSA in Raceland, Louisiana, where he spent a Friday evening at Danos’ Night Club, a roadhouse off Highway 1. That night was the free weekly crab boil. He took photographs of the people enjoying their meals, socializing and dancing. These photographs capture a glimpse of life in a small Louisiana town during the 1930s.
Love the shrine to ol Huey in picture 4!
The crabs look amazing!