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The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein (Dover Pictorial Archives) | 
 enlarge | Author: Arthur Rothstein
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 253924
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 119
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 9.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486235904
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9973917
EAN: 9780486235905
ASIN: 0486235904
Publication Date: March 1, 1978
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Outstanding 1930s photos: famous dust storm photo, ragged children, the unemployed, much more. 120 photographs. Captions.
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 photographic chronology January 7, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Wonderful book for recording a very difficult era. Remembering history is necessary so we don't repeat it. And, we are. Many of the problems of the dust bowl years and the financial depression are happening right now but they are hidding in plain sight. The middle class is becoming smaller, incomes are going down for most Americans, except the Bill Gates and Oprahs. Farmers are leaving the farms while a few farming conglomerates are buying most of the productive land. The fertility of the land keeps going down and people are losing their homes. Other countries are passing us and leaving us behind but still we ship them our jobs and money. Remember.
The work of the most famous photographer of the Dust Bowl November 9, 2002
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Arthur Rothstein became a photography at Columbia University where he met Roy Stryker, a professor economics. After graduation, Stryker hired Rothstein and others to document what became the Farm Security Administration. It was while working for the FSA that Rothstein became famous for his photographs of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, including the famous shot of the family running to their half buried home in the dust storm. Ironically, one of his other famous images, of a cow skull in the desert, was controversial because the shot was totally set up. "The Depression Years" includes 120 photographs, with captions of enduring images of the unemployed and ragged children. If you are interested in more of the background of Rothstein and his work, then check out "Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered" by James Curtis, if you can find a copy. Rothstein went on to become a staff photograph for "Look" and eventually the magazine's director of photography until it folded, at which point he taught photography at his alma mater. Rothstein is simply the definitive photographer of the Dust Bowl, as important to our cultural understanding as John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Rath" or the ballads of Woody Guthrie.
the depression years June 23, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is very exciting. It covers the depression from all over the country, the pictures are from New Mexico to Maine & Nevada to Florida. You really get a feel for the desperation that must have been felt. I really enjoyed looking through this.
 contains some good source photos of the era February 12, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I used this book to research Depression era clothing for a play and found the photos really intriguing and useful. I only wish there had been about 3 times more of them.
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