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

by Michael Lesy and Michael Lesy Ph.D.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393061116
• ISBN13: 9780393061116
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 10.4"