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    Invisible No More
    A Photographic Chronicle of the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities

    Vincenzo Pietropaolo (Author), Wayne Johnston (Foreword by), Catherine Frazee (Introduction by)

    9780813547688

    Hardback, published 17 June 2010

    160 pages, 67 color and 39 b&W photos
    27.9 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.964 kg

    "This is a very special book indeed. Poignant, powerful and heart rending to say the least, Vincenzo Pietropaolo has through his photographs and short evocative stories that accompany them, made visible the too often invisible lives of individuals who are born with intellectual disabilities."
    (Metapsychology)
    "Invisible No More is special for its blend of Pietropaolo techniques-from straightforward news photography to painterly evocations-and for the perceptual ruse it plays on its readers."
    (Toronto Star)

    For too long people with intellectual disabilities have been shut out of most societies around the world, or more accurately, they have been shut in-forcibly confined in mental institutions, quietly hidden inside their families' homes, isolated from public view as much as possible, and prevented from achieving the full potential that any human being inherently enjoys. Invisible No More rights this wrong.

    Renowned photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo presents a moving photographic chronicle-a celebration-filled with more than one hundred dynamic images and thirty evocative stories of people with intellectual disabilities, those who may have been born with Down syndrome, autism, or who are "otherwise abled."

    Invisible No More offers a collective portrait of individuals who perhaps live down the street from us, but we hardly know they are there; people at whom we glance furtively on a bus, unsure how to behave toward them; girls and boys, men and women who by their "different" behavior and physical looks make us feel uncomfortable. Pietropaolo's photos tell their stories, his words provide the context of their lives. Respect resonates on every page as he welcomes us into the daily lives of families and individuals who, in his words, "make raindrops, dance with wheelchairs, walk in the park, perform piano concerts, work for a living, and navigate through all the traffic ahead."


    Photographs and stories
    Friendship
    Confidence
    Adoption
    Mothers
    Puppy love
    Amy and Ginny
    Apprehension
    Reflections
    Sound surfer
    Doubt
    Navigating
    Acceptance
    Making raindrops
    No patronage, please
    Immigration
    Bells of inclusion
    Dance of wheelchairs
    Theater
    Max, a musician
    Opera tales
    Confluences
    Like an ex-convict
    Family
    A piano concerto
    Baby brothers
    Dinner
    Baby won't cry
    Working for a living
    A walk in the park
    Cyberspace
    The ice patch
    Health care professionals
    On children's books
    Retirement home
    Oak tree
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