Background
Erika Stone was born on June 29, 1924, in Frankfurt Am Main, Bayern, Germany. Stone's family moved to New York in 1936 to avoid Nazi persecution.
1956
Erika Stone was born on June 29, 1924, in Frankfurt Am Main, Bayern, Germany. Stone's family moved to New York in 1936 to avoid Nazi persecution.
Erika Stone studied in the 1950s at the City College of New York and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (journalism and photography).
A freelance photojournalist and illustrator since 1961, Erika Stone previously owned and was a partner in a picture agency, Photo-Representatives (1953-1960), and was a photographer for European Picture Service (1947-1953).
Quotations:
Erika Stone preferred to depict the humble, those she would meet in the city: "I usually took one afternoon a week, my husband did the babysitting and I went and walked and photographed."
Elegant and empathic, the American photographer’s black-and-white images capture trivial simplicity while highlighting people lying in gutters, looking sad, angry, or bemused: "I was always interested in doing something with my photography that would improve the world."
