Erika Stone

Stone was born Erika Klopfer in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1924.^[1][3] Stone's family moved to New York in 1936 to avoid Nazi persecution.^[4]

Stone worked as a stringer for Der Spiegel and Time.^[5] In the 1940s she became a member of the Photo League.^[4] Her Bowery Series, documenting the 1940s residents of the southern Manhattan neighborhood, was shot when Stone was just seventeen.^[6][7]

Stone's work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,^[1] the Center for Creative Photography,^[8] the George Eastman House^[9] and the Columbus Museum of Art.^[10] Many of her photographs between 1940 and 1999 are archived in the Erika Stone Photograph Collection of the New York Historical Society Museum and Library.^[11]

Stone was the subject of a 2011 documentary by Lars Gerhard titled Erika Stone: A New York Scene.^[5]