Group in Front of Fence, Pitt Street, Lower East Side, NY

1938, printed later
(American, 1919–2006)
Image: 17.9 x 23.1 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.); Paper: 19.5 x 25.1 cm (7 11/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
© Walter Rosenblum
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Location: not on view

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Taken at the height of the Depression when he was 19, this image shows a world Rosenblum knew intimately. One of five children of immigrant parents, he grew up in a three-room cold-water flat in one of the tenement buildings that filled New York’s Lower East Side. Because apartments were crowded, much of life was lived on the street, providing ample material for his camera.
Group in Front of Fence, Pitt Street, Lower East Side, NY

Group in Front of Fence, Pitt Street, Lower East Side, NY

1938, printed later

Walter Rosenblum

(American, 1919–2006)
American, 20th century

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