Arthur Rothstein: In Their Own Words

Quotes on photography, art, and life

"Documentary photographers all have a common characteristic. They are curious, yet objective. They search with inquisitive zeal for the essence of nature and events."

Arthur Rothstein, on documentary photography

"I was experimenting with the texture of the skull, the texture of the earth, the cracks in the soil."

Rothstein's later account of the 1936 South Dakota steer-skull photographs

"The documentary photograph tells us something about our world and makes us think about people and their environment in a new way."