The depression years / as photographed by Arthur Rothstein.

Main entry:

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer.

Title & Author:

The depression years / as photographed by Arthur Rothstein.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1978.
©1978

Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 119 pages : all illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

The Dover pictorial archive series

Notes:
"This Publisher's Note is chiefly based on the transcript of a tape-recorded interview with Arthur Rothstein conducted by Richard K. Doud on May 25, 1964 for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution."--Preliminary page 6.

Summary:

Rothstein's photographs provide a moving chronicle of rural and urban life, small-town America, and important labor and political events from 1936 to 1941.
"... 120 haunting and unforgettable photographs taken by the noted photographer Arthur Rothstein ... Working for the Farm Security Administration along with Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn, Rothstein documented the way America looked and felt during this critical time in everyone's history. Rothstein's technical and artistic proficiency, his unique sense of design, order and composition, are evident everywhere ... For this volume, Mr. Rothstein has collected rural scenes (Okies, barren and parched land, small schoolhouses, oppressed fruit and cotton pickers, individual portraits, portraits of families and children), urban shots (the stock market, night life, city-scapes), small-town America (barber shops, movie-house marquees, churches, stations, stores), labor and political events (unions, coal miners, F.D.R. on tour, American draftees)."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486235904 paperback
9780486235905 paperback

Subject:

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985.
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-
Rothstein, Arthur 1915-1985
Depressions 1929 United States Pictorial works.
Documentary photography United States 20th century.
Photography, Artistic.
Black-and-white photography.
Crises économiques 1929 États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie en noir et blanc.
art photography.
black-and-white photography.
Depressions
Documentary photography
Manners and customs
Fotografie
United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 Pictorial works.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 1918-1945 Ouvrages illustrés.
United States
Etats-Unis Moeurs et coutumes 1918-1945 Ouvrages illustrés.
Geschichte 1935-1941

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Books.
Bildband.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Dover pictorial archive series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26220
Call No.: 6860; ID:88-B12289
Status: Available

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