Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950 (170 Duotone Photographs Portray the Vibrant Multiethnic History of New York

by Peter E. Dans and Suzanne Wasserman

Book Overview

A young Rebecca Lepkoff, camera in hand, navigated the streets of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s capturing the lives and times of a vibrant, close-knit, and functional multiethnic community. Available now in a paperback edition, Life on the Lower East Side, the first monograph of Lepkoff's work, highlights the lost neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, from the Bowery to the East River. With more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568989393
• ISBN13: 9781568989396
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"