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The 10 Best Coffee Table Books of the Year by W Mag
Angela Cappetta Angela Cappetta

The 10 Best Coffee Table Books of the Year by W Mag

When Angela Cappetta moved to the Lower East Side in the 1990s, she found a vibrant community filled with tight-knit families. Despite the now-gentrified neighborhood’s challenges at the time, Cappetta felt welcomed with open arms. As she settled into her new home, she started photographing her neighbors, and the result is Glendalis, an intimate photo book featuring one Puerto Rican family in particular, with its titular youngest member as the focal point. “The home of a mom and her three girls is sacred territory,” Cappetta tells W of her book’s setting. “The beauty of the mundane—parenting, homework, dinner, sports—brings rhythm to these day-to-day rituals. And it glistens more brightly in neighborhoods with dust on its boots.”

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