COLLECTIONS
American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY
Archives and Special Collections, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
Borscht Belt Museum, Ellenville, NY
Brooklyn College Archives & Special Collections, Brooklyn, NY
Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Center for New York City Neighborhoods, New York, NY
Comunilife’s Woodhull Residence, Brooklyn, NY
Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY
El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
The Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY
New York City Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Queens Public Library Special Collections, Queens, NY
Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York, NY
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
PUBLICATIONS
MEMORIAL ‘76
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Forthcoming from Fordham University Press, 2026HALLOWEEN
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Forthcoming from Quarto, 2026HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH:
Loss and Remembrance in New York City
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Fordham University Press, 2025I HOPE I BREAK EVEN, I COULD USE THE MONEY
Photographs from Aqueduct Racetrack, 1972
By Larry Racioppo
Blurring Books, 2024LARRY’S SANDY DIARY
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2022CONEY ISLAND BABY
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2021B-BALL NYC
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2019BROOKLYN BEFORE
Photographs, 1971–1983
Three Hills/Cornell University Press, 2018THE WORD ON THE STREET
The Photographs of Larry Racioppo
Museum of Biblical Art, 2007HALLOWEEN
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1980
EDUCATION
Brooklyn College, M.S. Television/Radio Production
Fordham University, B.A. Communications
AWARDS
Queens Art Fund — New Work / Queens Council on the Arts, 2022
New York City Artists Corps, July, 2021
National Endowment for the Arts, 2006
Chairman’s Extraordinary Action Grant for The Word on the Street:
The Photographs of Larry RacioppoBCAT/Rotunda Gallery Artist’s Residency in Multimedia, 2005
New York State Council on the Arts, 2000
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, 1999
Brooklyn Arts Council, 1998
The Puffin Foundation
Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artists Award
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1997
Golden Light Awards: Top 100 Photographers
COMMISSIONS
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, 2011
New York Historical Society, 2002, 2004
Brooklyn Historical Society, 2002
Municipal Art Society, 2001
Brooklyn Information and Culture, Inc., 2000
New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1999
Museum of the City of New York, 1998
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
CAPTURING THE CATSKILLS: A Cross-Generational Playground
The Borscht Belt Museum, Hunt Memorial Building Gallery, Ellenville, NY, July 2025LARRY’S SANDY DIARY: Photographs 2012 to 2022
RISE (Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity)
Queens, NY, 2022ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL AT GROUND ZERO
The Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO, September 3–December 30, 2021BOWERY STREET
The Freak Bar Gallery, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY, September 2021B-BALL NYC
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, November 2019LARRY RACIOPPO: A Retrospective
Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn NY, September 2018BROOKLYN BEFORE: Selected Photographs
Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 2018A PHOTOGRAPHER in the CITY
Art + Cayce, Cayce, SC, 2010KITTY and LUCKY: Photographs of my Aunt Concetta and Uncle Augustine
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY, September 2009BROOKLYN INTERIORS
Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 2008THE WORD ON THE STREET: The Photographs of Larry Racioppo
The Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY, June 2006ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, September 2003O GIGLIO E PARADISO
Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 2003FORGOTTEN GATEWAY: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island
Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, NY, October 2002
New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ, April 2001
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, April 2000
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, October 1999
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, November 1998LANDSCAPES OF HOPE
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, January 1999
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
BROOKLYN VOICES
Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY, April 2022THE ART OF CONEY ISLAND
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, July 2021SUMMER SELECTIONS
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, July 2021CITY/GAME: Basketball in New York
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, February 2020BROOKLYN PHOTOGRAPHS
BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, September 2017FIVE CENTS TO DREAMLAND: A Trip to Coney Island
New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY, June 2016CONEY ISLAND
The Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, September 2015RISING WATERS: Photographs of Sandy
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, August 2013SEA DRIFT
Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, March 2013VOCES Y VISIONES: Gran Caribe
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, December 2011CHANGING STREETSCAPES
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, July 2006
City College of New York, Cohen Library, New York, NY, February 2005
New Architecture & Open Space in Harlem, New York, NY, 2005URBAN NEIGHBORS: Images of New York City Wildlife
The New York Public Library, New York, NY, October 2002OUT OF THE DUST: A Year of Ministry at Ground Zero
St. Paul’s Chapel, New York, NY, September 2002FRESH KILLS: The Photographs
Municipal Art Society, New York, NY, May 2001NEW YORK NOW 2000
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, May 2000ORDER AND DISORDER: Architectural Transitions in Prints and Photographs
The New York Public Library, New York, NY, January 1999GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, October 1998