Blogs about: Arthur Rothstein

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Five Things: Wednesday 27th March

martin colyer wrote 1 month ago: Poliça If Rooney Mara was the lead singer of a band, it would be Minnesota’s Poliça. With her alt-Du … more →

Tags: Weekly Roundup, Channy Leaneagh, Davidoff's Jermyn Street, Delaware Art Museum, Dust Bowl Ballads Sung By Woody Guthrie, john cuneo, Políca

Where is the line drawn and why? Is the New Deal FSA project a Body of Art? Documentation project only? Or both? You decide!

momographyphotography wrote 1 month ago: In doing my homework for my Photography Art History class, I always chose discussion questions that … more →

Tags: Art History, ben shahn, Carl Mydans, Depression, destitute farmers, documentation photography, Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, FSA

Dorothea Lange: Photographer of the Ozarks

echoesoftheozarks wrote 3 months ago: Two men stand by a sign asking voters to re-elect Claude Fuller to U.S. Congress in this photo taken … more →

Tags: ozarks, Arkansas, Photography, Dorothea Lange, Depression, Fayetteville, Rogers

Kauff and Perritt

Thom Karmik wrote 3 months ago: Benny Kauff and Pol Perritt were two of the reasons why the New York giants won the National League … more →

Tags: John McGraw, New York Giants, American Association, federal league, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Ty Cobb, National League, World's Series

Ken Burns Documentary: The Dust Bowl 1 comment

arts wrote 6 months ago: A film by Ken Burns, THE DUST BOWL, chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American hi … more →

Tags: Photography, film, Documentary, dust bowl, roy stryker, Dorothea Lange, Russel Lee, walker evans, Great Depression

Boardwalk Empire: 3.04 - "Blue Bell Boy"2 comments

Amanda Denton wrote 7 months ago: Let’s get up to speed- last week we found Nucky alone a lot, frying bacon and dreaming of cher … more →

Tags: TV reviews, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Nucky Thompson, Gyp Rosetti, Margaret Thompson, Eli Thompson, Mickey Doyle, meyer lansky

Edward Steichen’s The Bitter Years Meets Stephen Gill's Contemporary Photography1 comment

shinesquad wrote 8 months ago: The Centre National de l’audiovisuel in Luxembourg (CNA) is opening a major new space dedicated to p … more →

Tags: Travel, Arts, Blog, CNA, Dorothea Lange, dudelange, Edward Steichen, Exhibition, F. D. Roosevelt’s New Deal

DT wrote 11 months ago: … more →

Tags: inspirational photography, Photography, Art, Classic, kids, USA, Farmer, social realism, Dust Storm

Photo Archive Tuesday: Puerto Rico Mio

papayadreams wrote 11 months ago: Last Christmas, my husband gifted me the book Puerto Rico Mio, which contains a sampling of the coll … more →

Tags: Photo Archive Tuesday, 1940s, arecibo, Dorothea Lange, fsa photographers, Jack Delano, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Mio

Ben Shahn's Photographs

RXM wrote 1 year ago: I wrote of social realist painter Ben Shahn’s work last year in this post. Today, on the anniv … more →

Tags: Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, walker evans, Ben Shahn photographs

Eugene wrote 1 year ago: Sharecropper’s Daughter, Arkansas, 1935 by Arthur Rothstein … more →

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Don't Tread On Me

Seth Inman wrote 1 year ago: Humans’ ecological footprint has been increasing while the Earth has remained the same size. Especia … more →

Tags: Personal Statement, Culture, Photography (2), forests, John Muir, Gifford Pinchot

Errol Morris on Photography: Believing Is Seeing

Paul Moakley wrote 1 year ago: In his new book, the filmmaker investigates the mysteries behind some of photography’s most famous n … more →

Tags: Out There, Errol Morris, Crimean cannonball photos, Sabrina Harmon, Rothstein cow skull, Mickey Mouse, Roger Fenton

Book Review: Errol Morris–Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)1 comment

Theophrastus wrote 1 year ago: One of the more remarkable documentary filmmakers of our time is Errol Morris, who I count as an acq … more →

Tags: Art, Book Reviews, Philosophy, Cinema, Photography, Errol Morris, zoom, walker evans, Roger Fenton

Eugene wrote 1 year ago: Slushmobile, 1939 by Arthur Rothstein … more →

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Rothstein's First Assignment

Crary Pullen wrote 1 year ago: Directed by Richard Knox Robinson In October of 1935, the FSA photographer Arthur Rothstein came to … more →

Tags: The Backstory, FSA, Virginia, Shenandoah National Park, Richard Knox Robinson

Eugene wrote 1 year ago: Dallas Noir, 1942 by Arthur Rothstein … more →

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Modern Photojournalism (1920-1990)

rezkhan12 wrote 2 years ago: Photography was invented in the 1840s, but it was in the 1920s when photography became modern. This … more →

Tags: Photojournalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Journalism, Photographer, Techniques and Styles, photograph, life magazine, Art

Arthur Rothstein's amazing photograph6 comments

Jenny wrote 2 years ago: A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo by Arthur Ro … more →

Tags: Nature, Literature, History, Timothy Egan, dust bowl, The Worst Hard Time, Farm Security Administration, Franklin Roosevelt


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