Name Rebecca Lepkoff | Role Photographer | |
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Died August 17, 2014, Townshend, Vermont, United States | ||
Life on the lower east side a profile of photographer rebecca lepkoff
Rebecca Lepkoff (August 4, 1916 – August 17, 2014) was an American photographer. In the 1940s, she photographed street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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- Life on the lower east side a profile of photographer rebecca lepkoff
- Rebecca Lepkoff LIMBS
- Biography
- Published works
- References
Rebecca Lepkoff: LIMBS
Biography
Born in 1916, Rebecca Lepkoff grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Working as a dancer at the 1939 World's Fair, she saved enough money to buy a second-hand Borlander camera. Fascinated by the area where she lived, she first photographed Essex and Hester Streets which, she recalls, "were full of pushcarts." They no longer exist today but then "everyone was outside: the mothers with their baby carriages, and the men just hanging out." Her photographs captured people in the streets, especially children, as well as the buildings and the signs on store fronts.
In 1950, she also photographed people at work and play in Vermont. The images were used to illustrate the book Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950, published by the Vermont Historical Society. They present the area before its character was changed with paved roads and vacationers. In the 1970s, she photographed the next generation of inhabitants in a series she called Vermont Hippies.
Rebecca Lepkoff was an active member of the Photo League from 1947 until 1951 when it was dissolved as a "communist organization" in the McCarthy era.
Published works
