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]
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]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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. ^ a b Faas, Horst (April 2000). ""Requiem" Exhibit Travels to Vietnam". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "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.