ORIGINAL VINCENT CIANNI (b 1952) 'YOUNG HOMEBOY, BEDFORD AVENUE WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN' SIGNED LIMITED EDITION GELATIN SILVER PRINT FROM POLAROID NEGATIVE FROM THE SOUTHSIDE PORTRAITS
This is just a great original piece. This is one of two great original photographs by important 20th Century documentary photographers Vincent Cianni. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is a wonderful original photograph view of a young kid in the neighborhood. Sheet measures 14 x 11 inches. Signed, titled and numbered from an edition of 25, all in pencil on the back. Photograph is in excellent as printed condition. Photo is held with archival corner braces in archival matte. Ready for framing. Really a wonderful original photograph by this important New York photographer. If you collect Cianni or vintage New York photos, check my store for the other Cianni photograph I am offering. Matte measures 20 x 16 inches. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!
For those not familiar with the photographer, his biography from Parsons reads: "Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer whose work explores community, memory, and social justice issues through image, text and audio. Cianni holds an MFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz and teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design in NYC. He is the founder and director of the Newburgh community Photo Project, a grassroots community-based non-profit that teaxhes photography and activism to local youth (16-24 years old) from disadavntaged neighborhoods in Newburgh, NY. The Archive for Documentary Arts (Duke University) established a study archive of his photographic work in 2007. We Skate Hardcore, published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, was awarded the American Association of University Press Best Book Design and a major survey of this work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military, an investigation into the effects of the military’s ban on the lives and careers of LGBT service members was published by Daylight Books in May 2014 and was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and The Katie Couric Show. He recently presented at TEDxUniversityofNevada and has lectured on the book at the Library of Congress, the American Psychiatric Association and OutServe/SLDN Leadership Conference. Cianni’s photographs have appeared in The New Republic, Aperture, Double Take, The New Yorker, Slate, ViceUK, Photography as Activism; New York 400: A Visual History of America’s Greatest City; The Polaroid Book and numerous anthologies and online magazines. His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Stephen Daiter Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the George Eastman House as well as in international photo festivals at Houston Fotofest, KOLGA Tbilisi Photo Festival, the 7th Internaltionale Fototage Mannheim. His photographs reside in numerous public and private collections including Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; The Library of Congress; The Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; George Eastman House; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art "