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DiaporamaInhabitants of Gees Bend, Alabama
arthur rothstein (1915 – 1985)
Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985): American photojournalist of the FSA & OWI, documenting the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and rural life. Powerful social realism.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States of America)
Explore Souls Grown Deep: A Celebration of Black Art from the American South! Discover Gee's Bend quilts, assemblage art & inspiring stories by artists like Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley.
When Adrian Van de Graaff of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, bought the Pettway estate in 1900, he installed a relative, W. C. Travis, as overseer. Needom Mooney and his wife, Lucy (c. 1880 - 1969), worked as domestic servants at Sandy Hill, the former plantation house, where Travis lived until his death in 1916. When Arthur Rothstein photographed Gee
About this artwork
- Title: Inhabitants of Gees Bend, Alabama
- Artist: arthur rothstein
- Year: 1937
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Souls Grown Deep
- Corpus context: rothstein's humanist lens , documenting rural america
- Keywords: rothstein portrait , 1937 photograph , fsa photography
- Topics: resilience , 1930s , documentary
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