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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 26, 2011.
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A warm hello if I see you in your hometown when I am traveling this summer, a signed postcard from “We Skate Hardcore”.
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A personal thank you sent on a 4"x 6" work-print postcard and benefits from previous level.
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A signed copy of my book, “We Skate Hardcore” (postage paid for U.S. only; please add $25 for postage outside U.S.) and benefits from previous level.
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A signed copy of my book, “We Skate Hardcore” (postage paid for U.S. only; please add $25 for postage outside U.S.), a set of three signed 4x6” “We Skate Hardcore” postcards, two signed exhibition announcements.
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An 8”x10” fiber press print (signed, dated on verso) from “We Skate Hardcore” chosen from a selection of 10 and all the benefits from the $100 level. Postage at this level and above will be paid for both U.S. and outside U.S.
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An 8”x10” fiber collector’s print (signed, dated on verso) from “We Skate Hardcore” chosen from a selection of 10 and all the benefits from the $100 level. Or, alternately, your choice of an 8x10" fiber collectors print from "Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me." Plus your name listed as sponsor when archived at The Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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An 8”x10” fiber collector’s print (signed, dated on verso) of YOUR choice from “Gays in the Military” and all the benefits from the $250 level. Plus your name listed as sponsor when archived at The Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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An 11”x14” fiber collector’s print (signed, dated on verso) of YOUR choice from “Gays in the Military” or "We Skate Hardcore" chosen from a selection of 5 photographs and all the benefits from the $500 level.
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A 16”x20” fiber collector’s print (signed, dated on verso) of YOUR choice from “Gays in the Military” or "We Skate Hardcore" (chosen from a selection of 5 photographs) and all the benefits from the $500 level.
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Connected as Vincent Cianni (1822 friends)
I am a documentary photographer and educator. My work explores community and memory, the human condition, and the use of image, word and text. We Skate Hardcore was published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004 and was awarded the American Association of University Presses’ Best Book Design. This work was also published in Double Take, Aperture, Photograph, The New Yorker, New York 400: A Visual History of America’s Greatest City (Running Press, 2009); The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collection of Photography (Taschen, 2005) among others. The photographs were exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Photographers’ Gallery, London; George Eastman House; the 7th International Photography Festival in Mannheim; and the Fullerton Museum. A major survey of the work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. They were also included in the Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibition and book: Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library in 2010 and in Beauty, Truth and Social Justice at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston in 2011.
The Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library at Duke University established a study archive in 2007 to “insure the preservation of the documentary record created” throughout my career as a documentary photographer, and includes photographs, negatives, video, notes, correspondence made in conjunction with the projects and darkroom.” My photographs are represented in the collections of: Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research; George Eastman House; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Bibliotecque National de France.
I have received awards from The New School University’s Faculty Fund Award and The Palm Center in 2010 to help fund travel to photograph for “Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me.” I have also been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Belin Arts Scholarship Award, LiughtWork, the New York State Council on the Arts, Artist’s Space, New Jersey Sate Arts Council, Agfa Corporation, Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, and most recently two support grants from the Palm Center and the New School University’s Faculty Fund Award to support his new project “Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me.”
