Tag: Larry Racioppo

A tribute to New York’s DIY basketball scene

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

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-tribute-to-new-yorks-diy-basketball-scene/

Photographer Larry Racioppo spent the ’90s capturing the city’s makeshift streetball courts: ’the closer I looked, the more interesting they became. Many are really a form of folk art.’

January 14, 2020
A Portrait Brooklyn Before it Was Gentrified – Feature Shoot

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 returning to his hometown in December 1970. He took a job at the phone company and a class at SVA, which inspired him to start photographing the world in which he lived. Then little by little, everything began to change.

February 8, 2019
Larry Racioppo’s Photos of Good Friday Processions in Brooklyn

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 the city. It has been a running concern in his street photography, which includes a series on memorial walls and religious spaces in daily neighborhood life.

March 29, 2013
Larry Racioppo’s New York Housing Pictures

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“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. If there were bad conditions, they wanted to be able to change that. If conditions were horrible, they could get resources allocated. So my photographs were a wonderful tool.”

January 9, 2012