Research Catalog

Title

Brooklyn before : photographs, 1971-1983 / Larry Racioppo ; essays by Tom Robbins and Julia Van Haaften.

Author

Racioppo, Larry

Publication

• Ithaca : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robbins, Tom (Journalist)
• Van Haaften, Julia

Description

viii, 158 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

Photographs.

Subject

• Racioppo, Larry
• 1900-1999
• Street photography
• Manners and customs
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
• New York (N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFF 18-1555

ISBN

• 9781501725876
• 1501725874

LCCN

• 2017055086
• 40028478398

OCLC

1025364645

Author

Racioppo, Larry, photographer.

Title

Brooklyn before : photographs, 1971-1983 / Larry Racioppo ; essays by Tom Robbins and Julia Van Haaften.

Publisher

Ithaca : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Robbins, Tom (Journalist), author.

Van Haaften, Julia, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Racioppo, Larry, photographer. Brooklyn before. Ithaca : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501726774 (DLC) 2018008200

Other Standard Identifier

40028478398

Research Call Number

JFF 18-1555