17 Facts About Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein's career spanned five decades, and he received recognition as one of America's premier photojournalists.

The son of Jewish immigrants, Rothstein was born in Manhattan, New York City, and he grew up in the Bronx.

Arthur Rothstein was a 1935 graduate of Columbia University, where he was a founder of the University Camera Club and photography editor of The Columbian, the undergraduate yearbook.

Arthur Rothstein was a classmate of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt.

Arthur Rothstein had been Stryker's student at Columbia University in the early 1930s.

In 1935, as a college senior, Arthur Rothstein prepared a set of copy photographs for a picture source book on American agriculture that Stryker and another professor, Rexford Tugwell were assembling.

Stryker hired Arthur Rothstein to set up the darkroom for Stryker's Photo Unit of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration.

Arthur Rothstein became the first photographer sent out by Roy Stryker, the head of the Photo Unit.

The dwellings at Gee's Bend must have been as uncomfortable as the frame shacks thrown up for farm workers everywhere, but Arthur Rothstein's photographs emphasize the log cabins' picturesque qualities.

In 1940, Arthur Rothstein became a staff photographer for Look magazine but left shortly thereafter to join the OWI and then the US Army as a photographer in the Signal Corps.

Arthur Rothstein remained at Look until 1971 when the magazine ceased publication.

Arthur Rothstein joined Parade magazine in 1972 and remained there until his death.

Arthur Rothstein was the author of numerous magazine articles and a staff columnist for US Camera and Modern Photography magazines and the New York Times, Rothstein wrote and published nine books.

Arthur Rothstein's photographs are in permanent collections throughout the world and have appeared in numerous exhibitions.

Arthur Rothstein was a member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Spencer Chair Professor at S I Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.

Arthur Rothstein was on the faculties of Mercy College, and the Parsons School of Design in New York City, and he took great pride in mentoring young photographers including Stanley Kubrick, Douglas Kirkland, and Chester Higgins, Jr.

Arthur Rothstein died on November 11,1985, in New Rochelle, New York.