Since Jacob Riis first took photos of the slums on Mulberry Street in the 1890s, artists and reformers have used the Lower East Side to make social statements about the people who lived there. In the late 1930s, a young photographer named Rebecca Lepkoff simply went out into the streets and took pictures of the people she saw. Her book, LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, provides an unusually clear window into what the neighborhood was like when she was young.
2 comments the movie is wonderful- of course with Rebecca Lepkoff and Suzanne Wasserman, who could go wrong– excellent work.
thanks
Clayton
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Marlis Momber Says:
What a wonderful film.
Rebecca’s work can be seen at the Hamilton Fish Library at 415East Houston Str. just south of Ave.C.
regelar libreay hours.
go and sign up for special events all through the end of January 2008.
Tommorow Tuesday Dec.9.2008 she will shoe some short films
from 5pm-8pm. Wie and cheese will be served. There are 4 more women shoeing ntheir Images of The Lower East Side as well. we have been coined Women Photographers Dream Team:)