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Lee Nye was born in 1926 in Montana and is a renowned photographer. He is best known for his black and white photographs of the American West, which have been featured in numerous books and magazines. Nye began his career as a photographer in the 1950s, when he moved to California and began working for the Los Angeles Times. He later moved to Montana, where he continued to work as a freelance photographer. Nye's work has been featured in many books and magazines, including National Geographic, Life, and Time. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Montana Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Montana Arts Council's Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Nye is currently 73 years old and his net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned most of his wealth through his photography career. He is currently living in Montana and continues to take photographs of the American West.

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2004

Transitions in the Nude: 1950–1999; The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, November 9, 2004 – January 31, 2005

1999

Lee Nye (1926 – November 11, 1999) was an American photographer best known for his series of photographs entitled Eddie's Club Collection that documents Missoula, Montana's working class inhabitants.

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Nye was born in Hysham, Montana, in 1926. He attended high school in Butte where his father worked for the Northern Pacific Railway. Nye quit high school at 17 and worked as a cowboy until he later joined the United States Navy. In 1950 he moved to California and studied photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography. In the following years, Nye worked as a photographer in Los Angeles and New Orleans covering theater, movie still photography, news, fashion and portraiture. He was awarded two prizes in 1953 by Photography Magazine for his photographs "Sunday Morning" and "The Bath."