In this picture Rebecca Lepkoff reflects the humanist vision of the Photo League where she studied with such greats as Arnold Eagle, Sid Grossman, Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum. This image appears to be poised between two decades. The long shadows, old woman, littered street and locked synagogue conveys the melancholy of many pictures of the 1930s, while the poster of the film Daisy Kenyon (1947) starring Joan Crawford and Dana Andrews indicates that it takes place well into the 1940s.
		Rebecca Lepkoff (b. 1916) Henry Street, Manhattan, 1946-47 Vintage gelatin-silver print, 12 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (30.8 x 26.7 cm) © Rebecca Lepkoff, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York