Author: Larry Racioppo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
As Staff Photographer for New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 1989 to 2011, I documented vacant land and distressed properties throughout the five boroughs, most frequently in neighborhoods hit hardest by the housing crisis of the 1970s. I found 'evidence' of the 'city game' everywhere I went, from Tottenville in Staten Island to Wakefield in the Bronx, from West Harlem to East New York, Brooklyn. I came to love the stark beauty of net-less rims and home made hoops nailed to trees and plastic milk crates with their bottoms cut out tied to fences and fire escape ladders, often adjacent to spray-painted memorial (RIP) walls. After a while I realized that I had found a visually and culturally worthwhile project and started printing these images. I also began photographing more seriously, sometimes taking notes and returning on the weekend with my panoramic camera. I make 20 x 60 inch prints from these 2 1⁄4 x 6 3⁄4 inch negatives, and am working on a book of these images.
B-Ball Nyc
Author: Larry Racioppo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
As Staff Photographer for New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 1989 to 2011, I documented vacant land and distressed properties throughout the five boroughs, most frequently in neighborhoods hit hardest by the housing crisis of the 1970s. I found 'evidence' of the 'city game' everywhere I went, from Tottenville in Staten Island to Wakefield in the Bronx, from West Harlem to East New York, Brooklyn. I came to love the stark beauty of net-less rims and home made hoops nailed to trees and plastic milk crates with their bottoms cut out tied to fences and fire escape ladders, often adjacent to spray-painted memorial (RIP) walls. After a while I realized that I had found a visually and culturally worthwhile project and started printing these images. I also began photographing more seriously, sometimes taking notes and returning on the weekend with my panoramic camera. I make 20 x 60 inch prints from these 2 1⁄4 x 6 3⁄4 inch negatives, and am working on a book of these images.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
As Staff Photographer for New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 1989 to 2011, I documented vacant land and distressed properties throughout the five boroughs, most frequently in neighborhoods hit hardest by the housing crisis of the 1970s. I found 'evidence' of the 'city game' everywhere I went, from Tottenville in Staten Island to Wakefield in the Bronx, from West Harlem to East New York, Brooklyn. I came to love the stark beauty of net-less rims and home made hoops nailed to trees and plastic milk crates with their bottoms cut out tied to fences and fire escape ladders, often adjacent to spray-painted memorial (RIP) walls. After a while I realized that I had found a visually and culturally worthwhile project and started printing these images. I also began photographing more seriously, sometimes taking notes and returning on the weekend with my panoramic camera. I make 20 x 60 inch prints from these 2 1⁄4 x 6 3⁄4 inch negatives, and am working on a book of these images.
Coney Island Baby
Author: Larry Racioppo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578985794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578985794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Playthings
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Category : Toys
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
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Category : Toys
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Industrial Directory of New York State
Author: New York (State). Department of Commerce
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Brooklyn Before
Author: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy borough we know today. In Brooklyn Before, Racioppo lets us see the vitality of his native Brooklyn, stretching from historic Park Slope to the beginnings of Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park. His black and white photographs pull us deep into the community, stretching our memories back more than forty years and teasing out the long-lost recollections of life on the streets and in apartment homes. Racioppo has the fascinating ability to tell a story in one photograph and, because of his native bona fides, he depicts an intriguing set of true Brooklyn stories from the inside, in ways that an outsider simply cannot. On the pages of, Brooklyn Before the intimacy and roughness of life in a working-class community of Irish American, Italian American, and Puerto Rican families is shown with honesty and insight. Racioppo's 128 photographs are paired with essays from journalist Tom Robbins and art critic and curator Julia Van Haaften. Taken together, the images and words of Brooklyn Before return us to pre-gentrification Brooklyn and immerse us in a community defined by work, family, and ethnic ties.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy borough we know today. In Brooklyn Before, Racioppo lets us see the vitality of his native Brooklyn, stretching from historic Park Slope to the beginnings of Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park. His black and white photographs pull us deep into the community, stretching our memories back more than forty years and teasing out the long-lost recollections of life on the streets and in apartment homes. Racioppo has the fascinating ability to tell a story in one photograph and, because of his native bona fides, he depicts an intriguing set of true Brooklyn stories from the inside, in ways that an outsider simply cannot. On the pages of, Brooklyn Before the intimacy and roughness of life in a working-class community of Irish American, Italian American, and Puerto Rican families is shown with honesty and insight. Racioppo's 128 photographs are paired with essays from journalist Tom Robbins and art critic and curator Julia Van Haaften. Taken together, the images and words of Brooklyn Before return us to pre-gentrification Brooklyn and immerse us in a community defined by work, family, and ethnic ties.
The Playground
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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Report of the Education Department
Author: University of the State of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Officers and Graduates ...
Author: Columbia University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
Who's who in American Sports
Author:
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Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Pick-Up Game
Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763671886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game of street basketball. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763671886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game of street basketball. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.