Date: Nov 10, 2014 - Dec 10, 2014
Child in East Harlem, Copyright Erika Stone
Double Take, Copyright Erika Stone
Documentary Photographer Erika Stone Retrospective Exhibition
at Hallmark Battery Park Senior Residence
November 10 – December 10, 2014
New York City— Renowned documentary photographer Erika Stone will have a retrospective exhibition at Hallmark Senior Residence in Battery Park (455 North End Avenue). The exhibition will be on Monday, November 10 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm, and then by appointment through December 10 by calling Whitney Bryant-Glandon at 917-522-2323. Ms. Stone, now age 90 and a Hallmark resident, will be in attendance at the opening reception.
The exhibition will feature 16 of Erika Stone’s 16 X 20 iconic black-and-white images from the 1940s through 1970s. Her subjects include Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Danny Kaye, Rita Gam, Emmet Kelly, and Ginger Rogers, as well as street life in the Lower Eastside and Harlem.
Stone’s documentary photographs reflect her long, active career as a photojournalist and magazine photographer. In the 1940s, she was a member of the legendary Photo League, an organization of socially conscious photo documentarians, which she feels most influenced her approach to her personal photographic work.
Although she considers herself mostly self-taught, she studied at the New School of Social Research with Bereniece Abbott and George Tice. Stone was a stringer for both Time and Der Spiegel magazines and worked as a general photojournalist until 1960. After the birth of her two sons, she made photographing children and family her specialty. Her photographs have been widely published in books and magazines around the world.
Stone was one of twenty women photographers whose work was published in the anthology Women of Vision in 1982. Her pictures appeared in the US Camera Annuals 1952, 1954, 1955, and 1956. Her fine art and documentary work is in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, The International Center of Photography, George Eastman House in Rochester, The Portland, Maine Fine Arts Museum, The New York Public Library, and The National Gallery of Ottawa, Canada. She is represented (apart from this exhibition at Hallmark) by the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
For more information about Erika Stone, please see this short film about her by Lars Gerhard (http://vimeo.com/100961021) and her website at www.erikastone.com.