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Anthony Riccio's photographs retrace the arc of immigration from ancestral villages in Italy to Boston's North End, documenting a lost world of an Italian American culture. His images will forever remind Italian Americans of the places their families left behind and the new home they created in America. - Umberto Mucci, author of We the Italians: Two Flags, One Heart. One Hundred Interviews Riccio's photos magnificently capture daily life of Italians in the South of Italy and in Boston in the 1970s and '80s. Everyday people and their environment are brought back to life through an intense and moving visual testimony, seasoned with love. - Margherita Ganeri, Universita della Calabria Continuing in the tradition of his previous works, Riccio's photographs in From Italy to the North End immerse us in the colors, textures, spaces, and visages of Italians and Italian Americans at a significant historical moment. In the decade depicted here, Riccio does the important work of representing the transitions and transformations of Italian culture through images and stories of the last wave of Italians to experience immigration from Italy's villages and cities to the ethnic enclave that Boston's North End once was. - Gwen Kordonowy, Boston University From Italy to the North End offers us a luminescent and sensuous panorama of Italian American life in the 1970s and '80s in one of urban America's most famous ethnic neighborhoods, Boston's North End, captured by gifted photographer Anthony Riccio in its waning days just before gentrification and displacement changed its character forever. This rich volume is a gift, a precious celebration and visual remembrance of worlds already passed into history. - Tim Sieber, University of Massachusetts Boston From southern Italy's rural villages to the tenement flats of Boston's North End, Riccio's evocative words and images capture the essence of a bygone era. His subjects-many of whom gaze beatifically into the lens of their trusted photo-biographer-have, as the author so aptly notes, their lives mapped on their faces. Thanks to this engaging work, their stories are deftly preserved for our benefit. The exposition of the author's personal journey further enriches this compelling narrative, which leaves the reader grateful for Riccio's enduring commitment to the irreplaceable value of roots, tradition, and the quest for something greater than ourselves. - Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

""Anthony Riccio's photographs retrace the arc of immigration from ancestral villages in Italy to Boston's North End, documenting a lost world of an Italian American culture. His images will forever remind Italian Americans of the places their families left behind and the new home they created in America."" - Umberto Mucci, author of We the Italians: Two Flags, One Heart. One Hundred Interviews ""Riccio's photos magnificently capture daily life of Italians in the South of Italy and in Boston in the 1970s and '80s. Everyday people and their environment are brought back to life through an intense and moving visual testimony, seasoned with love."" - Margherita Ganeri, Universita della Calabria ""Continuing in the tradition of his previous works, Riccio's photographs in From Italy to the North End immerse us in the colors, textures, spaces, and visages of Italians and Italian Americans at a significant historical moment. In the decade depicted here, Riccio does the important work of representing the transitions and transformations of Italian culture through images and stories of the last wave of Italians to experience immigration from Italy's villages and cities to the ethnic enclave that Boston's North End once was."" - Gwen Kordonowy, Boston University ""From Italy to the North End offers us a luminescent and sensuous panorama of Italian American life in the 1970s and '80s in one of urban America's most famous ethnic neighborhoods, Boston's North End, captured by gifted photographer Anthony Riccio in its waning days just before gentrification and displacement changed its character forever. This rich volume is a gift, a precious celebration and visual remembrance of worlds already passed into history."" - Tim Sieber, University of Massachusetts Boston ""From southern Italy's rural villages to the tenement flats of Boston's North End, Riccio's evocative words and images capture the essence of a bygone era. His subjects-many of whom gaze beatifically into the lens of their trusted photo-biographer-have, as the author so aptly notes, their lives mapped on their faces. Thanks to this engaging work, their stories are deftly preserved for our benefit. The exposition of the author's personal journey further enriches this compelling narrative, which leaves the reader grateful for Riccio's enduring commitment to the irreplaceable value of roots, tradition, and the quest for something greater than ourselves."" - Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

"""Anthony Riccio's photographs retrace the arc of immigration from ancestral villages in Italy to Boston's North End, documenting a lost world of an Italian American culture. His images will forever remind Italian Americans of the places their families left behind and the new home they created in America."" - Umberto Mucci, author of We the Italians: Two Flags, One Heart. One Hundred Interviews ""Riccio's photos magnificently capture daily life of Italians in the South of Italy and in Boston in the 1970s and '80s. Everyday people and their environment are brought back to life through an intense and moving visual testimony, seasoned with love."" - Margherita Ganeri, Universita della Calabria ""Continuing in the tradition of his previous works, Riccio's photographs in From Italy to the North End immerse us in the colors, textures, spaces, and visages of Italians and Italian Americans at a significant historical moment. In the decade depicted here, Riccio does the important work of representing the transitions and transformations of Italian culture through images and stories of the last wave of Italians to experience immigration from Italy's villages and cities to the ethnic enclave that Boston's North End once was."" - Gwen Kordonowy, Boston University ""From Italy to the North End offers us a luminescent and sensuous panorama of Italian American life in the 1970s and '80s in one of urban America's most famous ethnic neighborhoods, Boston's North End, captured by gifted photographer Anthony Riccio in its waning days just before gentrification and displacement changed its character forever. This rich volume is a gift, a precious celebration and visual remembrance of worlds already passed into history."" - Tim Sieber, University of Massachusetts Boston ""From southern Italy's rural villages to the tenement flats of Boston's North End, Riccio's evocative words and images capture the essence of a bygone era. His subjects-many of whom gaze beatifically into the lens of their trusted photo-biographer-have, as the author so aptly notes, their lives mapped on their faces. Thanks to this engaging work, their stories are deftly preserved for our benefit. The exposition of the author's personal journey further enriches this compelling narrative, which leaves the reader grateful for Riccio's enduring commitment to the irreplaceable value of roots, tradition, and the quest for something greater than ourselves."" - Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami"

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Anthony V. Riccio is Collections Maintenance Manager at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. His previous books include The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories; Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut, both published by SUNY Press; and Boston's North End: Images and Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood. He is also the coauthor, with Silvio Suppa, of Cooking with Chef Silvio: Stories and Authentic Recipes from Campania, also published by SUNY Press.

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