Arthur Rothstein
Videos
Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer. His career spanned five decades, and he received recognition as one of America's premier photojournalists.
Rothstein in 1938
Rothstein's Resettlement Administration photograph Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, an iconic image of the Dust Bowl taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
Annie Pettway Bendolph carrying water. Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein.
The former home of the Pettways. Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein.
Boykin, Alabama
Videos
Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its popul
Arthur Rothstein
…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, and was preparing an article on tenancy for the July issue of The American Magazine, but Stryker sensed bigger possibilities, telling Rothstein, "We…
Children rehearsing around a maypole for health day exercises, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
Old cable ferry between Camden and Gees Bend, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.