Column: Jun Fujita is a famous photographer you've never heard of

Graham Harrison Lee is a determined man. It has taken him nearly two decades to give us a book about his great-uncle — and what an amazing man he was, and what a spectacular book is “Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera.”

This is the compelling and photo-splashed story of a man born in a small village near Hiroshima in Japan, who immigrated to Canada as a teenager, where he got his first camera. By 1909, he was here, one of only 235 Japanese living in Chicago. He worked as a train porter, a domestic servant, a construction worker and an actor, appearing in several films shot at the Essanay Studios on the North Side. He attended high school, graduating at 25, and later enrolled at what was then the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) to study mathematics. To pay his tuitio