We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside.

We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside, by the agency of Vincent Cianni. New York University Press/150 pp/$2495 (hb) We Skate Hardcore, which was awarded the Best Overall work Design by the Association of American University Presse (out of 250 entries), is a visually compelling book--even at a glance. For seven years social documentary photographer Cianni followed around a cluster of skaters from a Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn NY documenting their lives as skaters-as youth in a tough environment. The images which are a mix of black and white and color photographs, along with a handful of video stills, provide an intimate emotional examine into Cianni's experience with individual skaters. The paragraph is comprised of expository writing by the agency of Cianni, hand-written comments by the skaters depicted and transcribed conversations that took place between Cianni and the skaters. A DVD containing footage of the skaters pictured in the work as well as additional photographs and an interview with Cianni approachs with the book.

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