This book documents the photographs of Erika Stone who worked for the European Picture Service photo-library, funded her own agency in 1953 and travelled widely on reportage assignments. She photographed all of the most important postwar personalities from Marilyn Monroe to Marlene Dietrich and Leonard Bernstein to Willy Brandt. Her sensitive observation always allowed the human face to shine through the mask of prominence. In the 60s she began to photograph children again and as a result she has been politically active since then on behalf of children and the handicapped."