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

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Author: Michael Lesy

ISBN-10: 0393061116

ISBN-13: 9780393061116

Category: Photographers - Biography

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...

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The fascinating search for meaning in the life and work of a little-known photographer.