Item
Bibliographic Resource
African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama
- Title of the Document
- African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama
- One Line Summary
- Arthur Rothestein was an American photographer hired to document life, specifically rural poverty, during the Great Depression. He traveled to Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and his work was featured in Richard Wright’s, “12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (1941).”
- Author
- Arthur Rothestein
- Date Created
- 1937
- Location
- not currently on display; photo was taken in Gee’s Bend, Alabama
- Transcription
- The colorless photograph shows a large family standing together outside of their homes.
- Provenance
- Rothstein, Arthur. "African American Family at Gee’s Bend, Alabama (Photograph- gelatin silver print)." The Met, 1937. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/284663.