Erika Stone shop Orchard Street Fruit Peddler

Product Name: Erika Stone shop Orchard Street Fruit Peddler
"Orchard Street Fruit Peddler" by Photographer Erika Stone. This photo was taken in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Circa 1950. New York City origins. Paperwork and numbered (#365) on the back. This piece measures approximately 18" High and 12" Wide. Good condition with some age appropriate wear to the corners and edges (see photos for detail.) The artist stated about this photograph "While roaming through New York's Lower Eastside, an area of people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, I came across this fruit stand and seller on Orchard Street, a colorful thoroughfare of shops. He looked like a must for a shot with his belly and cigar." Erika Stone was a member of the legendary Photo League and was a stringer for both Time and Der Spiegel magazines. Stone was one of twenty women photographers whose work was published in an anthology Women shop of Vision in 1982.