Inhabitants Of Gees Bend, Alabama — Arthur Rothstein

Inhabitants of Gees Bend, Alabama

Arthur Rothstein’s ‘Inhabitants of Gee’s Bend, Alabama’ captures rural Black life in 1937. A poignant documentary photo showcasing dignity & hardship through striking composition & light. Explore this FSA masterpiece.


arthur rothstein (1915 - 1985)

Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985): American photojournalist of the FSA & OWI, documenting the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and rural life. Powerful social realism.

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Explore Souls Grown Deep: A Celebration of Black Art from the American South! Discover Gee's Bend quilts, assemblage art & inspiring stories by artists like Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley.

When Adrian Van de Graaff of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, bought the Pettway estate in 1900, he installed a relative, W. C. Travis, as overseer. Needom Mooney and his wife, Lucy (c. 1880 - 1969), worked as domestic servants at Sandy Hill, the former plantation house, where Travis lived until his death in 1916. When Arthur Rothstein photographed Gee