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CELEBRATIG AMERICAN WORKERS: SURVIVING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

This exhibit presents selected photographs by Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), who lived in New Rochelle, New York from 1956 to 1985.  As a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1935-1943, Rothstein traveled the United States documenting the lives of men, women and children confronting the challenges of the Great Depression.  After his stint with the FSA, Arthur Rothstein served in the Army Signal Corps in Asia during WWII. He then had an illustrious career of more than forty years as director of photography and as a photo editor for Look and Parade magazines.  A teacher, writer and photographic inventor, Rothstein received dozens of top awards in photojournalism, authored nine books and was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in photography. His photographs are held in the collections of major museums throughout the world.   The images in this exhibit depict the daily lives and struggles of agricultural works, miners, industrial union members, migrant laborers, and the unemployed.  These pictures offer a glimpse of how Americans persevered in the face of challenges that foreshadowed our current drought and Great Recession.

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