A tribute to New York’s DIY basketball scene Streetball has long been New York City’s premier DIY sport. “You don’t need a lot of equipment or a lot of people to play,” says Brooklyn photographer Larry Racioppo. He first fell in love with the game as an 11-year-old, growing up in Sunset Park in the…
A Portrait of Brooklyn Before it Was Gentrified – Feature Shoot John and Michael, 16th Street, 1980 John’s Caddy, 6th Avenue, 1975 Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, a movement was afoot. The media called it “white flight” and sang it… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/02/a-portrait-brooklyn-before-it-was-gentrified/ Brooklyn native Larry Racioppo headed west for two years before…
In the Spirit and on the Street Brooklyn — the Borough of Churches — is where Larry Racioppo has been photographing Good Friday processions and pageants since the 1970s. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/four-crucifixions-in-brooklyn/ Unlike some traditional documentary essays about Holy Week in Spain or Guatemala, his images show an intimacy with both the people and…
Lens “It was the era after the Bronx was burning, and how the city responded to that in an effort to make a dent,” said Larry Racioppo, who retired last September. “We had to be able to photograph what was really there, and not to sugarcoat anything. The commissioners never told me to hide anything.…
