Erika Stone (born June 29, 1924) is an American photographer.
She was a member of the New York
Photo League.
Early life
Stone was born Erika Klopfer in
Frankfurt, Germany, in 1924.
Stone's family moved to New York in 1936 to avoid Nazi persecution.
Photo career
Stone worked as a
stringer for ''
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...
'' and ''
Time''.
In the 1940s she became a member of the Photo League.
Her ''Bowery Series'', documenting the 1940s residents of the southern Manhattan neighborhood, was shot when Stone was just seventeen.
Stone's work is included in the collections of the
National Gallery of Canada,
the
Center for Creative Photography
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American pho ...
, the
George Eastman House and the
Columbus Museum of Art. Many of her photographs between 1940 and 1999 are archived in the ''Erika Stone Photograph Collection'' of the
New York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. ...
Museum and Library.
Stone was the subject of a 2011 documentary by Lars Gerhard titled ''Erika Stone: A New York Scene''.
References
20th-century American photographers
20th-century American women artists
1924 births
Living people
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
21st-century American women
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