Erika Stone
American, b. Germany, 1924
Born 1924, Frankfurt, Germany
Lives in New York
In 1937, Stone emigrated with her family from Germany to Riverdale, New York. Shortly after graduating from high school (c. 1942–43) she joined the Photo League, where she attended lectures and group discussions and, at age seventeen, produced a photo-essay on the Bowery. She later took a photography course with Berenice Abbott at the New School for Social Research (1944–45). Stone remained involved with the League through the late 1940s and participated in the exhibition "This Is the Photo League" (1948–49). She was a freelance photographer for the European Picture Service (1947–53) before cofounding the Photo Representatives picture agency (1953–59) with Anita Beer. In the 1950s she also worked as a stringer for Time and Der Spiegel, and her photographs appeared in U.S. Camera Annual (1952, 1954, 1955, 1956). Much later, she was included in Women of Vision: Photographic Statements (1982). She published widely; two of her many books are Mostly People: Photographs by a German Immigrant in New York (2001) and Especially the People (2003). Her work appeared in the exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009). Stone continues to practice the street photography that first captivated her.
Lives in New York
In 1937, Stone emigrated with her family from Germany to Riverdale, New York. Shortly after graduating from high school (c. 1942–43) she joined the Photo League, where she attended lectures and group discussions and, at age seventeen, produced a photo-essay on the Bowery. She later took a photography course with Berenice Abbott at the New School for Social Research (1944–45). Stone remained involved with the League through the late 1940s and participated in the exhibition "This Is the Photo League" (1948–49). She was a freelance photographer for the European Picture Service (1947–53) before cofounding the Photo Representatives picture agency (1953–59) with Anita Beer. In the 1950s she also worked as a stringer for Time and Der Spiegel, and her photographs appeared in U.S. Camera Annual (1952, 1954, 1955, 1956). Much later, she was included in Women of Vision: Photographic Statements (1982). She published widely; two of her many books are Mostly People: Photographs by a German Immigrant in New York (2001) and Especially the People (2003). Her work appeared in the exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009). Stone continues to practice the street photography that first captivated her.
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