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“From the Archive: Rebecca Lepkoff—Midtown Manhattan”
Rebecca Lepkoff
1916–2014
Rebecca Lepkoff was a New York–born photographer who captured street life in her Lower East Side neighborhood. Lepkoff bought her first camera with earnings from dancing at the 1939 World’s Fair and then turned her eye to the rhythms and movements of daily life in the city. She associated with a number of other Jewish photographers of the period, including Arnold Eagle, who introduced her to the Photo League, a group that recorded the rapidly changing urban environment in which they lived. Her works document the bygone spaces, buildings, and communities of her youth and much of her adult life.
Midtown Manhattan
1947
© Estate of Rebecca Lepkoff, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
From The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973, edited by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies.
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- Lower Eastside Façade (1947) by Erika Stone
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- May Day, Union Square, New York City (1948) by Jerome Liebling
- Untitled (Group of Boys and Swastika) (1948) by Vivian Cherry
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