| Vincent Cianni’s "Southside Portraits", a project he has been working
on for about four years now, is an exploration of gender. He has explored
ideas of masculinity in the Latino culture of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and
in other male work produced since 1983, usually as part of ongoing projects.
Cianni teaches photography at Parson School of Design in Manhattan, and his photographs are constructed with an amazing sensitivity to the integration of fore- and background, an integration of environment and person, of thematic importance in the Southside work. Do his photographs describe a sociology? A social commentary? A statement? Does he try to link us to the individual subjects by providing us with intimate glimpses of their lives? He has written, "The subjects act out...a life’s perceptions of how they see themselves and how they see the function of a photograph." Most have been made using polaroid film, although he also works with 35mm. EXHIBITIONS: Cianni has exhibited widely: in France, in London at the Photographer’s Gallery, at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, at the Houston Center for Photography, etc. ARTICLES:
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