Ritual : Good Friday in Toronto's Italian immigrant community, 1969-2016

Title
  1. Ritual : Good Friday in Toronto's Italian immigrant community, 1969-2016 / Vincenzo Pietropaolo.
Published by
  1. London : Black Dog Publishing, 2016.
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Pietropaolo, Vincenzo, 1951-

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Additional authors
  1. Sutnik, Maia-Mari
  2. Snyder, Don
Description
  1. 215 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 x 28 cm
Summary
  1. Ritual documents the Good Friday procession -- an elaborate event that takes place annually in the streets of the historic Italian community in Toronto. Consisting of multiple reenactments with amateur actors and statues of Biblical tableaux that depict the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross), the event commemorates the passion and death of Jesus Christ, one of the most fundamental rituals of Christianity. Tens of thousands of people attend each year to walk in reverence or to stand on the sidelines as observers. The atmosphere is decidedly not festive but funereal, as worshippers sing mournful hymns to the plaintive sounds of dirges performed by brass bands. Year after year, there is a photographer drifting among the crowds, interacting with the participants, renewing contacts and documenting assiduously, a modern-day character in the cast of street in historical attire. That photographer is Vincenzo Pietropaolo. He has been photographing the vent almost every year since 1969, and, in the process, the annual pilgrimage with his camera has become his own personal ritual as a documentary photo artist.
Subject
  1. Pietropaolo, Vincenzo
  2. Good Friday > Ontario > Toronto > History > Pictorial works
Contents
  1. Vincenzo Pietropaolo's documentary roots / Maia-Mari Sutnik -- Photography : a personal ritual / Vincenzo Pietropaolo -- Ritual : four decades of Good Friday photographs / Don Snyder -- The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties -- The Millennial Years -- In their own words : conversations and interviews -- List of works -- Publication history of photographs -- Exhibition history of photographs -- About the process -- Acknowledgments.
Call number
  1. JFF 17-462
Author
  1. Pietropaolo, Vincenzo, 1951- photographer.
Title
  1. Ritual : Good Friday in Toronto's Italian immigrant community, 1969-2016 / Vincenzo Pietropaolo.
Publisher
  1. London : Black Dog Publishing, 2016.
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Added author
  1. Sutnik, Maia-Mari, contributor.
  2. Snyder, Don, contributor.
ISBN
  1. 1911164074 hardback
  2. 9781911164074 hardback
Research call number
  1. JFF 17-462
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