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Arthur Rothstein 
'Fleeing a dust storm'. Farmer Arthur Coble and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimmaron County, Oklahoma 
1936 
  
Gelatin silver print, mounted to board 
10 1/2 x 14 
  
Silverstein Photography 
 
LL/349 
  
In an oral history interview with Arthur Rothstein by Richard Doud (25 May 1964) for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution the following comments were made.
 
Arthur Rothstein:
... one day, wandering around through Cimarron County in Oklahoma, which is in the panhandle of Oklahoma, I photographed this farm and the people who lived on the farm. The farmer and his two children, two little boys, were walking past a shed on their property and I took this photograph with the dust swirling all around them. I had no idea at the time that it was going to become a famous photograph, but it looked like a good picture to me and I took it. And I took a number of other pictures on the same property. And then I went on to some other farms and took those pictures. This particular picture turned out to be the picture that was quite famous. It was a picture that had a very simple kind of composition, but there was something about the swirling dust and the shed behind the farmer. What it did was the kind of thing Roy [Stryker] always talked about-it showed an individual in relation to his environment. Of course this is the sort of thing that painters from time immemorial have been trying to do-to show man in relation to his environment. You know the old axiom that " Art is the expression of man," so here, if this has any art, it's because it's an expression of man.
 
Provenance: US Camera Archive

 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - CALL NUMBER
LC-USF34- 004052
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-DIG-ppmsc-00241 DLC (digital file from print)
LC-USZC4-4840 DLC (color film copy transparency from print)
LC-USZ62-11491 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from print) 
 

 
  
 
  
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