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

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

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Description 1 online resource Contents BROOKLYN BEFORE; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Before the Gold Rush; A Solitary Walker in Brooklyn; Fortieth Street; Fifteenth Street; Changes; God and Country; Country and God; Acknowledgments; Biographies 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 Analysis Brooklyn, Change, Neighborhood, Family, Religion, Working Class, Blue Collar Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Racioppo, Larry SUBJECT Racioppo, Larry Racioppo, Larry fast Subject Street photography. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Monographs. Manners and customs Street photography SUBJECT 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 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn Genre/Form Pictorial works Form Electronic book Author Robbins, Tom (Journalist), author. Van Haaften, Julia, author LC no. 2018008200 ISBN 9781501726774 1501726773 9781501726781 1501726781

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