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The Photographs of Arthur Rothstein: The Library of Congress
Key Metrics
- George Packer
- Giles
- Paperback
- 9781904832898
- 7.15 X 7.17 X 0.46 inches
- 0.6 pounds
- Photography > Reference
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Arthur Rothstein was born in New York in 1915. In the early 1930s he attended Columbia University, where he studied with Roy Stryker, who later hired him at the FSA. During his five years as an FSA photographer, Rothstein produced a gripping visual record of the country's poor that included Virginia farmers, the Dust Bowl, cattle ranchers in Montana, and a tenant community in Gee's Bend, Alabama. After World War II he joined Look magazine, serving as director of photography until the magazine ceased production in 1971. He died in 1985.
Author Bio
George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, and The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq.
Source: The Atlantic
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