Arthur Rothstein

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Arthur Rothstein was a prominent American photojournalist best known for his powerful Dust Bowl and Great Depression-era images that documented rural life and hardship.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photographer
human
photographer
photojournalist
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1915-07-17
dateOfDeath 1985-11-11
educatedAt Columbia University
employer Resettlement Administration
surface form: Farm Security Administration

Look magazine
Office of War Information
Parade magazine
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
familyName Rothstein
fieldOfWork documentary photography
photojournalism
genre documentary photography
social documentary photography
givenName Arthur
hasPhotographed American farmers
Dust storms
rural poverty in the United States
sharecroppers
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement New Deal photography
notableFor photographs documenting rural hardship in the United States
photographs of the Dust Bowl
photographs of the Great Depression
notableWork Farm Security Administration photographers
surface form: Dust Bowl photographs

Farm Security Administration photographers
surface form: Great Depression rural life photographs

Oklahoma dust storm photograph
occupation editor
photographer
photojournalist
participantIn Farm Security Administration photographs
surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project

Great Depression documentation projects
World War II home-front documentation
placeOfBirth Manhattan
New York City
placeOfDeath New Rochelle, New York NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of photography at Look magazine
director of photography at Parade magazine
sexOrGender male
stateOfBirth New York
stateOfDeath New York
workLocation New York City
Washington, D.C.

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