Bud Lee's naturalistic style and the lengths he will go to capture an image have made his photography legendary. Italian film director Federico Fellini once wrote of him, "You crazy like me," after Lee spent three weeks on the set of "Satyricon," photographing Fellini for Esquire.

Lee's raw images of celebrities, war, landscapes and Americana have appeared in Esquire, Life, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Town and Country, The New York Times and more.

Click through this sampling of his work, and see why he was Life magazine's News Photographer of the Year.