This year, IDEA Boston will host a temporary exhibit of photographs by Anthony V. Riccio. A total of 23 pictures taken in the 1970s and ’80s form a bridge between ancestral towns and villages in rural Italy and the North End, the iconic Boston neighborhood that welcomed Italian immigrants to the area for over a century. The pictures are part of Riccio’s 2017 book From Italy to the North End, published by SUNY Press.
“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, Università della Calabria
IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
