Accession (2007-0072) houses a series of 224 black and white photographic prints depicting roller blade and street culture in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, taken by Cianni during the 1990s and into 2001. Fifteen of the prints appear in Cianni's book, We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's South Side (2001); and 68 prints are unpublished. Photographs are captioned and signed on the back. Also included are photographs of urban life in the Bronx, NY; and from the baby shower (Queens, NY) and wedding (Fairborn, OH) of a young couple who appear in other images from this series. Finally, the series houses the maquette for Cianni's book (version 1, 2000), and the printer's dummy (versions 2-3, 2001-2004). Accession (2007-0200) contains 65 black and white, gelatin silver prints and photographic collages of East Berlin, the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Berlin, 1990. Prints range from 8x10 to 16x24 and are captioned and signed on back by the photographer. Accession (2008-0048) contains prints from the Poughkeepsie Mall series (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1980s) and the Providence House Men's Shelter (Newburgh, NY, 1983). 44 black and white photographic prints: one 5 5/8 x 8 1/2, one 5 7/8 x9; and forty-two 11x14 prints. Poughkeepsie Mall series: twenty-two 11x14 prints, 1980s. Images depict youth culture, African American culture, and urban decay. Accession (2008-0300) contains 184 prints of weddings, including some transgender weddings, taken by Cianni during the 1980s. This series includes Cianni's MFA project, Wedding Rituals, a group of twenty-four 20x24 prints and one 16x20 print. Photographs in this series are in both color and black and white; many are captioned and signed on the back by the photographer. Accession (2008-0303) contains an additional twenty-three 8x10 duotone prints from Cianni's book We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's South Side. These prints include portraits and other images of roller blade culture in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York during the mid-1990s. Accession (2009-0243) houses forty-two black and white photographs of Muay Thai style of kickboxing competition in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2004: thirty-six 8x10 prints and six 16x20 prints. Accession (2010-0187) includes forty-seven 8x10 black and white gelatin silver prints from the We Skate Hardcore series. The prints are signed on verso and date 1995-2003, with bulk dates 1995-1997. In addition, the collection contains digital video, stills, and image scans created by Vincent Cianni, all relating to his work We Skate Hardcore. Originals are closed to use. Most files have been mounted to the library server; for access to them, please contact the reference archivist. Collection was acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
