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, 2026

HALLOWEEN
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Forthcoming from Quarto, 2026

HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH:
Loss and Remembrance in New York City
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
Fordham University Press, 2025

I HOPE I BREAK EVEN, I COULD USE THE MONEY
Photographs from Aqueduct Racetrack, 1972
By Larry Racioppo
Blurring Books, 2024

LARRY’S SANDY DIARY
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2022

CONEY ISLAND BABY
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2021

B-BALL NYC
Photographs by Larry Racioppo
South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2019

BROOKLYN BEFORE
Photographs, 1971–1983
Three Hills/Cornell University Press, 2018

THE WORD ON THE STREET
The Photographs of Larry Racioppo
Museum of Biblical Art, 2007

HALLOWEEN
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 Racioppo

BCAT/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 2025

LARRY’S SANDY DIARY: Photographs 2012 to 2022
RISE
(Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity)
Queens, NY, 2022

ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL AT GROUND ZERO
The Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO, September 3–December 30, 2021

BOWERY STREET
The Freak Bar Gallery, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY, September 2021

B-BALL NYC
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, November 2019

LARRY RACIOPPO: A Retrospective
Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn NY, September 2018

BROOKLYN BEFORE: Selected Photographs
Tabla Rasa Gallery
, Brooklyn, NY, September 2018

A PHOTOGRAPHER in the CITY
Art + Cayce, Cayce, SC, 2010

KITTY and LUCKY: Photographs of my Aunt Concetta and Uncle Augustine
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
, Staten Island, NY, September 2009

BROOKLYN INTERIORS
Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 2008

THE WORD ON THE STREET: The Photographs of Larry Racioppo
The Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY, June 2006

ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, September 2003

O GIGLIO E PARADISO
Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 2003

FORGOTTEN 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 1998

LANDSCAPES 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 2022

THE ART OF CONEY ISLAND
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
, Brooklyn, NY, July 2021

SUMMER SELECTIONS
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, July 2021

CITY/GAME: Basketball in New York
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, February 2020

BROOKLYN PHOTOGRAPHS
BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, September 2017

FIVE CENTS TO DREAMLAND: A Trip to Coney Island
New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

CONEY ISLAND
The Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, September 2015

RISING WATERS: Photographs of Sandy
Museum of the City of New York
, New York, NY, August 2013

SEA DRIFT
Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, March 2013

VOCES Y VISIONES: Gran Caribe
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, December 2011

CHANGING 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, 2005

URBAN NEIGHBORS: Images of New York City Wildlife
The New York Public Library
, New York, NY, October 2002

OUT OF THE DUST: A Year of Ministry at Ground Zero
St. Paul’s Chapel
, New York, NY, September 2002

FRESH KILLS: The Photographs
Municipal Art Society, New York, NY, May 2001

NEW YORK NOW 2000
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, May 2000

ORDER AND DISORDER: Architectural Transitions in Prints and Photographs
The New York Public Librar
y, New York, NY, January 1999

GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, October 1998