portrait of Lionel Ziprin by Aishling Labat

No. 22: Lionel Ziprin (2004)

portrait of Lionel Ziprin by Aishling Labat

This Rembrandt-like photo was taken near the end of Lionel’s life by his granddaughter, Aishling Labat (the daughter of Lionel’s beautiful daughter Zia), in early 2009. Lionel was an extraordinary person, an artist, a mystic, a scholar, a poet and the most extraordinary teller of stories. He grew up on East Broadway during the Depression, … Read more