{"id":318,"date":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2020-12-16T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T00:18:24","slug":"arthur-rothstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/arthur-rothstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Rothstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-525\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/s1292-lg-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/s1292-lg-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/s1292-lg-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/s1292-lg.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arthur Rothstein was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).\u00a0 Born and raised in New York City to Jewish immigrants in 1915, Rothstein attended Columbia University to pursue his studies.\u00a0 After developing his skills as a photographer at Columbia, his professor, Roy Stryker, recruited him to the FSA.\u00a0 As a FSA photographer, Rothstein photographed events such as the Dust Bowl and communities like the Gee\u2019s Bend community in Alabama.\u00a0 After leaving the FSA in 1940, Rothstein participated in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Magazine.\u00a0 His images are known for being direct and objective depictions of reality during the Great Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Through Her Gaze features one of <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothstein&#8217;s<\/span> images<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM-300x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM-1536x1103.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.12.59-PM.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rothstein, Arthur<br \/>Carrying water. Gee&#8217;s Bend, Alabama<br \/>1937<br \/>3 1\/4 x 4 1\/4 inches<br \/>Photograph<br \/>Negative : Nitrate Farm Security Administration<br \/>Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Outside Looking In features another one of <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothstein&#8217;s<\/span> images<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-1536x1138.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/2017.48.14_Rothstein-2048x1518.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rothstein, Arthur Gee\u2019s Bend, Alabama 1937, printed later mid-20th century 9 1\/2 x 13 in. (24.13 x 33.02 cm) Photograph North America, American Gelatin silver print Bowdoin College Museum of Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the artist:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/dustbowl\/photos\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/photos\/?fa=partof:catalog%7Ccontributor:rothstein,+arthur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arthur Rothstein: photography, art and propaganda in The New Deal\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAdXBYT367k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How a Group of Women in This Small Alabama Town Perfected the Art of Quilting | Op-Docs\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YHEqYVzSs7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arthur Rothstein was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).\u00a0 Born and raised in New York City to Jewish immigrants in 1915, Rothstein attended Columbia University to pursue his studies.\u00a0 After developing his skills as a photographer at Columbia, his professor, Roy Stryker, recruited him to the FSA.\u00a0 As a FSA photographer, Rothstein &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/arthur-rothstein\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur Rothstein&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}