Bud Lee (photographer)

Bud Lee (born Charles Todd Lee, Jr., January 11, 1941 in White Plains, New York, died June 11, 2015 in Plant City, Florida) was a Florida based photojournalist and artist. His photography has been published in Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Town & Country, and The New York Times Magazine. His photograph of a boy wounded in the Newark riots won him Life magazine's 1967 photographer of the year award.

After joining the U.S. Army (3rd Armored Division), Lee began working as a photographer in 1965 for the Stars & Stripes (newspaper). 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.

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