cool photo from a street photographer that was unknown until after his death, Angelo Rizzuto
His street photography opus of 60,000 images lay in file cabinets, unseen by anyone, until 2001... 34 years after his death.
His father had been wealthy, and the fight over the estate left Angelo a mental case, he was committed, etc. He surprisingly had attended Harvard Law school, so, he was exceptionally smart. He bought a brownstone in Manhattan, with inheritance, and developed his photos on the 2nd floor
Every day at 2 p.m. between May 1952 and June 1964 (excepting January through July 1960), Rizzuto would venture out with a camera to record images for what was to be a vast encyclopedic kaleidoscope of Manhattan, a book to be called Little Old New York.
Before he died, knowing that he would not live to see his intention realized, Rizzuto bequeathed 60,000 photographs and the proceeds from the sale of his house, about $50,000, to the Library of Congress, on the condition that the library publish a book of his work.
The library appointed some asshole that did a horrible job, simply to get the money, and used that money to buy the photos of famous photographers.
They published a book described by photographic historian Michael Lesy as "bound with staples, illustrated with perhaps 60 indifferently printed reproductions of the dead man’s pictures."
Lesy first encountered these images in 1973 while looking for photographs of the 1950s and compiled them into a longer book entitled Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto.
Rizzuto's collection of images in the Library of Congress is still largely undigitized; as of late 2021, 1400 images are available online. Obviously, the librarians have spent 50 years ignoring a lump sum total of work because Angelo Rizzuto wasn't famous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Rizzuto
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26095
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/stalking-the-crowded-city-a-loner-with-a-lens.html is an article that is only accessible if you haven't exceeded the free article a month from the NY Times
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26095
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/stalking-the-crowded-city-a-loner-with-a-lens.html is an article that is only accessible if you haven't exceeded the free article a month from the NY Times
Looking at that picture I wonder who is more powerful, the one who gets the uncomfortable ride, or the one who controls where it goes and how fast? LoL
ReplyDeleteThe first picture reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman tried to start a rickshaw business and Kramer ends up pulling Newman in the rickshaw. Maybe this was them in younger days.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSgpHQO-J4