Erika Stone

Erika Stone (born June 29, 1924) is an American photographer.

[2] 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] 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.