Anthony Angel
Stunning; can’t believe I’m only now learning of Angel’s work. Whole article is fantastic; more beautiful photos there | via Ephemeral New York:
Mental illness set in. Instead of finishing his Harvard degree, he joined the army, and after a medical discharge drifted across the country doing odd jobs before settling in Manhattan.
Armed with a camera and a new identity as Anthony Angel, he spent years promptly leaving his rented room on East 51st Street to crisscross the city, an unlikely documentarian of ordinary glimpses during Gotham’s postwar years.
“On almost every afternoon from 1952 to 1966, [Rizzuto] left his crummy rented room to snap pictures on the New York streets,” wrote New York magazine in 2005.