Everette Dixie Reese

Everette Dixie Reese (1923–1955) was an American photographer and photojournalist.[3] He was born in Houston, Texas.[3] Reese served in the US Army from May 1943 through January 1946 when he was honorably discharged as Private First Class.[1] Reese was hired as a photographer with the US Economic Cooperation Administration Office of the Special Representative in 1949.[1] During the First Indochina War from 1951 until his death in 1955 he was stationed in Saigon, Vietnam.[1] In 1952 he worked with the United States Information Agency in Saigon to build a photo lab for its operations, and took part in printing cultural propaganda photos.[4]

Everette Dixie Reese
Born(1923-10-29)October 29, 1923[1]
Houston, Texas
DiedApril 29, 1955(1955-04-29) (aged 31)[1]
Saigon, Vietnam
SpouseDorothy Reese née Bloomfield[2][1]
ChildrenAlan Reese[2]

Reese died when the plane he was flying in was shot down over Saigon.[5][6]

His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston[7] and the George Eastman Museum,[3] which holds 5700 of his photographs and negatives.[1]

References
  1. Smith, Amanda L. (2011). Providing access to the Everette Dixie Reese prints and negatives at the George Eastman House (PDF) (thesis). Toronto Metropolitan University. doi:10.32920/ryerson.14646189.v1. OCLC 760216447. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  2. Faas, Horst (April 2000). ""Requiem" Exhibit Travels to Vietnam". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  3. "Everette Dixie Reese | People | George Eastman Museum". collections.eastman.org. n.d. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  4. Way, Jennifer (3 October 2019). The Politics of Vietnamese Craft: American Diplomacy and Domestication. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-00702-4. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  5. Dyer, Geoff (7 March 2013). Anglo-English Attitudes. Canongate Books. ISBN 978-0-85786-334-8. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  6. Kahn, Donald (8 July 2014). PHOTOGRAPHY: A CONCISE HISTORY. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4990-4512-3. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  7. "Everette Dixie Reese: Making Wooden Practice Rifles, Cambodia". mfah.org. n.d. Retrieved December 4, 2021.


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