Orkin, Ruth. "A Place to Play," in Horizon, Volume IX, Number 2, Spring 1967, by Ruth Orkin.

Featuring photographic portfolio by Ruth Orkin of Jacob Riis Plaza, New York City with eight images, mostly of African American children. Entire issue of hardcover magazine, also includes Two Thousand Years of War in Viet-Nam; The Trojan War; Twilight Princess and the Sun King; Michaelangelo Pistoletto; Andrew Wyeth’s Portraits; James Mallord William Turner paintings; Troglodytes; Konrad Lorenz; Robinson Crusoe’s island; Willa Cather, “The Meatax Girl; and others. Book plate of previous owner on front flyleaf, moderate wear at extremities, internally fine.

Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) was an American photojournalist, filmmaker, and educator celebrated for her candid street photography, musical portraits, and keen visual storytelling. Raised in Hollywood as the daughter of a silent film actress, Orkin bought her first camera at age ten and famously completed a solo bicycle trip across the United States in 1939 to document the World's Fair. Settling in New York City in 1943, she established herself as a freelance photojournalist for major publications, including Life, Look, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times, capturing iconic portraits of figures like Leonard Bernstein, Albert Einstein, and Marlon Brando. In 1951, while traveling in Italy, she created her most famous photograph, An American Girl in Italy, depicting her friend Ninalee Craig walking past a gauntlet of ogling Italian men. Alongside her husband, filmmaker Morris Engel, she co-directed the groundbreaking independent feature film Little Fugitive (1953), which earned an Academy Award nomination and deeply influenced the French New Wave. In her later years, Orkin authored several celebrated photobooks, including A World Through My Window (1978), which documented decades of changing seasons, parades, and street life from her Central Park West apartment. Today, her work is held in major permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography.