As Pietropaolo makes clear in his introduction, the photographs in this book have a very specific and personal meaning for him, coming out of his own experience of growing up the son of Italian immigrants. Pietropaolo’s work has ranged across many subjects. But in all his work that first informing sensibility that derives from his immigrant background is still present-it is what gives his work its humanity, its tone, the sense of a complicity, as Pietropaolo says, between the viewer and the viewed. In this book, that complicity comes through as a rare feeling of insidedness, as if the photographer were not merely an observer but had somehow placed himself side by side with his subjects.
– From the foreword by Nino Ricci
Foreword | by Nino Ricci |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | |
Context | by Giuliana Colalillo |
Interview | by Denyse GĂ©rin-Lajoie |
Index to the Photographs |