Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto

Michael Lesy

ISBN 10: 0393061116 / ISBN 13: 9780393061116

Edité par W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 2006

A propos de cet article

127 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stated first edition and first printing.

N° de réf. du vendeur 4iEa0011

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto
• Éditeur: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393061116
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393061116
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Laura Lindgren (Book Design)
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Photography
  • New York City History and Studies

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Synopsis

In this profound and disturbing book, noted photo historian Michael Lesy is in search of a man who left a strange archive of sixty thousand images to the Library of Congress. We learn that he was Angelo Rizzuto, but he called himself "the little Angel." He lived in a single, run-down room in a crummy hotel. We learn that every day he left at 2:00 p.m. to photograph New York City obsessively, from above and on the streets. We see the cityscapes he took, compassionate photographs of children and confrontational pictures of angry women. We see his anguished self-portrait taken almost every day. These are the obvious discoveries. What is not obvious is why; what did it all mean? In his thoughtful and erudite essay Lesy has fashioned nothing less than a psychoanalytic dissection of a tortured soul in an account that is both deeply unsettling and satisfying at the same time.

À propos des auteurs

Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel’s World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.

Angelo Rizzuto, photographer, captured the day to day life of New York City and himself.