Life on the L.E.S. lecture at Southstreet Seaport Museum tonight! · Aug 7, 02:27 PM
Peter Dans, co-author of Life on the Lower East Side will speak at the South Street Seaport Museum tonight at 6 p.m. as part of the ongoing photo exhibition There Once Was a Neighborhood:
Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff 1937-1950.
There Once Was a Neighborhood:
Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff 1937-1950
South Street Seaport Museum
Schermerhorn Row Galleries
12 Fulton Street NewYork NY
Rebecca Lepkoff, camera in hand, navigated the streets of the Lower East Side in the 1930s and 1940s, capturing the lives and times of a vibrant, close-knit and functional multi-ethnic community. These images uncover a forgotten time and place and reveal how the Lower East Side has both stayed the same and changed forever.
Life on the Lower East Side
Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950
By Rebecca Lepkoff, Peter Dans, and Suzanne Wasserman
$40.00/ HARDCOVER
8.5×11 IN / 192 PP / 170 DUOTONE IMAGES
“This is an impressive collection of photographs depicting life amid the slum conditions and abject poverty of New York City’s Lower East Side. The neighborhood is rich in culture with people from all over the world seeking their American dream. Lepkoff photographed from 1937 to 1950 a vibrant multiethnic community neighborhood including Italians, Germans, Poles, African Americans, and the Irish. The pictures depict a working-class neighborhood of people going about their daily chores, children playing, friends visiting on the stoop (a New York tradition), and multigenerational families enjoying one anothers’ company. The book is divided into three sections, with the segment titled “Plates” showcasing the vast majority of the photographs. The photographs offer a brief history of an era long gone, but their predominant themes remain today. The book succeeds, in part, by telling a pictorial history of the Lower East Side and reminding viewers of the inevitable change that takes place in communities. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”
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