GROUP OF THREE VINTAGE (3) PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMERICAN MASTER ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN

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GROUP OF THREE VINTAGE (3) PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMERICAN MASTER ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN:
$400.00

You are offerding on a fantastic Group of THREE (3) Stamped, Dated, Titled and Annotated Photographs,Gelatin SilverPrints,

by American Master Photographer ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (1915-1985).

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ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (American, 1915-1985)

Three (3) Gelatin Silver Prints

All Titled, Dated, Annotated and Stamped on the Reverse

Here are the Titles and dates by the order displayed in the photos:

1) \"Boxing fans at the Astrodome, Houston, TX 1970\"

2) \"Father of Miss America, Denton, TX 1965

3) \"Pastor & Congregation, East Monmouth, ME 1967\"

All Sheets:11\"High x 14\"Wide -27.8 cmHigh x35.5 cm Wide

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Arthur Rothstein (July 17, 1915 in New York City – November 11, 1985 in New Rochelle, New York) was an American photographer. Rothstein is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people. His photographs ranged from a hometown baseball game to the drama of war, from struggling rural farmers to US Presidents.

Mr. Rothstein was born in Manhattan and he grew up in the Bronx. He was a graduate of Columbia University, where he was a founder of the University Camera Club and photography editor of the Columbian. Following his graduation from Columbia during the Great Depression Mr. Rothstein was invited to Washington DC by one of his professors at Columbia Roy Stryker. Rothstein had been Stryker\'s student at Columbia University in the early 1930s. In 1934, as a college senior, he prepared a set of copy photographs for a picture source book on American agriculture that Stryker and another professor, Rexford Tugwell were assembling. The book was never published, but before the year was out, Tugwell was part of FDR\'s New Deal brain trust. He hired Stryker and Stryker hired Rothstein to set up the darkroom for Stryker\'s Photo Unit of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration (RA), which became the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937. Later, when the country geared up for World War ll, the FSA became part of the Office of War Information (OWI).

Arthur Rothstein became the first photographer sent out by Roy Stryker, the head of the Photo Unit. During the next five years he shot some of the most significant photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. He and other FSA photographer, including Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Mary Post Wolcott, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Jack Delano, Charlotte Brooks, John Vachon, Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn, were employed to publicize the living conditions of the rural poor in the United States.

The photographs made during Rothstein\'s five-year stint with the photographic section form a catalog of the agency\'s initiatives. His first assignment was to document the lives of some Virginia farmers who were being evicted to make way for the Shenandoah National Park and about to be relocated by the Resettlement Administration, and subsequent trips took him to the Dust Bowl and to cattle ranches in Montana.

The immediate incentive for his February 1937 assignment came from the interest generated by congressional consideration of farm tenant legislation sponsored in the Senate by John H. Bankhead, a moderate Democrat from Alabama with a strong interest in agriculture. Enacted in July, the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act gave the agency its new lease on life as the Farm Security Administration.

On February 18, 1937, Stryker wrote Rothstein that the journalist Beverly Smith had told him about a tenant community at Gee\'s Bend, Alabama, \"the most primitive set-up he has ever heard of. Their houses are of mud and stakes which they hew themselves.\" Smith was preparing an article on tenancy for the July issue of The American Magazine, but Stryker sensed bigger possibilities, telling Rothstein, \"We could do a swell story; one that LIFE will grab.\" Stryker planned to visit Alabama and asked Rothstein to wait for him, but he was never able to make the trip and Rothstein went to Gee\'s Bend alone.

The residents of Gee\'s Bend symbolized two different things to the Resettlement Administration. On the one hand, reports about the community prepared by the agency describe the residents as isolated and primitive, people whose speech, habits, and material culture reflected an African origin and an older way of life. On the other hand, the agency\'s agenda for rehabilitation implied a view of the residents as the victims of slavery and the farm-tenant system on a former plantation. The two perceptions may be seen as related: if these tenants — despite their primitive culture— could benefit from training and financial assistance, their success would demonstrate the efficacy of the programs.

Unlike the subjects of many Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration photographs, the people of Gee\'s Bend are not portrayed as victims. The photographs do not show the back-breaking work of cultivation and harvest, but only offer a glimpse of spring plowing. At home, the residents do not merely inhabit substandard housing but are engaged in a variety of domestic activities. The dwellings at Gee\'s Bend must have been as uncomfortable as the frame shacks thrown up for farm workers everywhere, but Rothstein\'s photographs emphasize the log cabins\' picturesque qualities. This affirming image of life in Gee\'s Bend is reinforced by Rothstein\'s deliberate, balanced compositions which lend dignity to the people being pictured.

There does not seem to have been a LIFE magazine story about Gee\'s Bend, but a long article ran in the New York Times Magazine of 22 August 1937. It is illustrated by eleven of Rothstein\'s pictures, with a text that draws heavily upon a Resettlement Administration report dated in May. The story extols the agency\'s regional director as intelligent and sympathetic and describes the Gee\'s Bend project in glowing terms. Reporter John Temple Graves II perceived the project as retaining agrarian — and African — values.

In 1940, Mr. Rothstein became a staff photographer for Look magazine but left shortly thereafter to join the OWI and then the US Army as a photographer in the Signal Corps. His military assignment took him to the China-Burma-India theatre and he remained in China following his discharge from the military in 1945, working as chief photographer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, documenting the Great Famine and the plight of displaced survivors of the Holocaust in the Hongkew ghetto of Shanghai.

In 1947 Mr. Rothstein rejoined Look as Director of Photography. He remained at Look until 1971 when the magazine ceased publication. Mr. Rothstein joined Parade magazine in 1972 as Director of Photography and remained there until his death.

He was the author of numerous magazine articles and a staff columnist for US Camera and Modern Photography magazines and the New York Times. Mr. Rothstein wrote and published nine books.

Mr. Rothstein’s photographs are in permanent collections throughout the world and have appeared in numerous exhibitions. A selection of this one-man shows include shows at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester NY the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Photokina, Cologne, Germany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Royal Photographic Society, London, England, as well as traveling exhibitions for the United States Information Service and for Parade magazine.

He was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and a Spencer Chair Professor at SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. Mr. Rothstein was also on the faculties of Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, and the Parsons School of Design in New York City and he took great pride in mentoring young photographers including Stanley Kubrick, Douglas Kirkland and Chester Higgins, Jr.

A recipient of more than 35 awards in photojournalism and a former juror for the Pulitzer Prize, Mr. Rothstein was also a founder and former officer of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP). Arthur Rothstein Died on November 11, 1985. To learn more about Arthur Rothstein and view more of his photographs, visit arthurrothsteinarchive.com.

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