Arthur Rothstein was a young man in the 1930s. He originally wanted to be a doctor. But it was the Depression and he went to work for the Farm Security Administration, documenting American workers and ...

The Great Depression was one of the most dismal periods in American history—and, paradoxically, one of the most photogenic. Hired by the U.S. government under FDR’s visionary Farm Security ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, ...

My father, Arthur Rothstein, was a social documentary photographer. In the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, he used his camera to bring attention to problems in society, taking social action in the ...

“..Rothstein’s passion for photojournalism and documentary photography and its use for the betterment of society was a common thread throughout his career... ” ...

Printed in the 1970's. Farmer Arthur Coble and sons walking the face of a dust storm. Cimmaron County, Oklahoma. April, 1936 In the spring of 1936 Arthur Rothstein (American 1915-1985) set out to ...

It’s one of the most infamous images of the Great Depression: the sun-bleached skull of a steer on the parched, drought-stricken plains of South Dakota. When the photo, taken by Farm Security ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Photographer; New York City. Died 1985 After earning a B.A. from Columbia College, Rothstein was a photographer with the U.S. Farm Security ...