Images of L.E.S., blowin’ in the wind

Rebecca Lepkoff, the legendary Lower East Side lenswoman, photographed every aspect of the neighborhood where she grew up, from the streets to the sheets on the clotheslines strung between the crowded tenements. Much of her best work about the neighborhood can be found in “Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950,” collected by Peter Dans and Susan Waserman, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Lepkoff died this August at age 98.