Ray Halstead Pumping a Tire — Russell Lee

Russell Lee photographed Ray Halstead, a Farm Security Administration rehabilitation borrower, pumping up a tire at Dead Ox Flat in Malheur County, Oregon, in 1941. Halstead bends over a hand pump beside the front wheel of a farm vehicle, dressed in work clothes, tall boots, and a brimmed hat.

The close composition gives equal weight to the worker and the machinery around him. The curved fender, worn tire, dusty ground, and open landscape create a direct record of everyday rural work. Lee's restrained black-and-white photograph turns an ordinary moment of maintenance into a precise study of labor, machinery, and American farm life.

Artwork Details

• Artist: Russell Lee
• Title: Ray Halstead, FSA rehabilitation borrower, pumping up a tire
• Original title: Ray Halstead, FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower, pumping up a tire. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon
• Series: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
• Date: 1941
• Period: 1940s
• Place of Origin: Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, United States
• Medium: Black-and-white photograph from safety film negative

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