13 Facts About Angelo Rizzuto

Angelo Antonio Rizzuto was an American photographer who worked in Manhattan from 1952 until his death.

Angelo Rizzuto's parents were Antonio Rizzuto and Francesca Scarpino Rizzuto; Francesca had two sons from a previous relationship, Sam and Frank.

Angelo Rizzuto graduated from Wittenberg College in Ohio in 1931.

Angelo Rizzuto's father had a successful construction business, but when he died Rizzuto and his brothers fought over the estate, which drove Rizzuto to a suicide attempt in 1941, after which he was temporarily committed to a sanatorium.

Angelo Rizzuto lived in Manhattan, in a brownstone which he owned on 51st Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues which he is believed to have purchased with an inheritance after his brother died.

Angelo Rizzuto developed his photographs on the second floor of his home.

Rizzuto was somewhat friendly with a next-door neighbor, Peter Sutherland, whom Rizzuto picked to be the executor of his will.

Sutherland refused, and when Angelo Rizzuto died, his will was executed by James Montgomery, a lawyer.

Angelo Rizzuto's estate received one quarter of Angelo's estate and the Library of Congress received the rest.

Angelo Rizzuto was otherwise not seen outside of his apartment.

Angelo Rizzuto's images include images of the city, compassionate-seeming photographs of children and animals, confrontational pictures of angry women, as well as anguished self-portraits.

Angelo Rizzuto used bulk roll film and might have used multiple cameras during a specific day's shooting.

Angelo Rizzuto later compiled them into a longer book entitled Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto.