Background
Lepkoff, Rebecca was born on August 4, 1916 in New York City, New York, United States. Daughter of Isadore Brody and Anna Rose Schwartz.
Lepkoff, Rebecca was born on August 4, 1916 in New York City, New York, United States. Daughter of Isadore Brody and Anna Rose Schwartz.
Bachelor, City College New York.
In the 1940s, she photographed street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Working as a dancer at the 1939 World"s Fair, she saved enough money to buy a second-hand Borlander camera. Fascinated by the area where she lived, she first photographed Essex and Hester Streets which, she recalls, "were full of pushcarts." They no longer exist today but then "everyone was outside: the mothers with their baby carriages, and the men just hanging out." Her photographs captured people in the streets, especially children, as well as the buildings and the signs on store fronts.
In 1950, she also photographed people at work and play in Vermont.
The images were used to illustrate the book Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950, published by the Vermont Historical Society. They present the area before its character was changed with paved roads and vacationers.
In the 1970s, she photographed the next generation of inhabitants in a series she called Vermont Hippies.
Photographer Lower E. Side Neighborhood Association, New York City, 1955—1959. Active Vermont Stratton Area Citizen's Committee, Vermont, since 1980.
Married Eugene Lepkoff, January 17, 1942. Children: Daniel, Jesse, Tamar.