Vincent Comparetto collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 30 high resolution digital prints that document and celebrate DIY spaces and the music subculture of Denver, Colorado. This specific community consisted primarily of women and non-binary artists performing on the periphery of the city in warehouses and live/work artist cooperatives.
Comparetto generated comments for each image, and these are included in the scope and contents for each image and identified as "captions."
Dates
- 1996 - 2018
- Copyright: 2021
Copyright Statement
The University Libraries do not own the copyright to this collection. Researchers are responsible for contacting the copyright holder(s) for this material and obtaining permission to publish or broadcast. The University Libraries will not grant permission to publish or broadcast this material and are not responsible for copyright violations resulting from such use.
Biographical / Historical
Vincent Comparetto graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996. He is a motion graphics designer, photographer, editor, and director who has worked for several companies. Comparetto was also a professor at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado from 2010 to 2017.
His photography work started shortly after he moved to Colorado. Comparetto photographed and documented the punk scene in Denver, concentrating heavily on the DYI venues, until 2019 and continues this work now in New York City.
Extent
30 digital images
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection by artist Vincent Comparetto includes 30 high resolution digital prints that document and celebrate DIY spaces and the music subculture of Denver, Colorado. Comparetto is an artist from Denver, Colorado living in New York City, and works as a motion graphic designer, editor, painter, director, and a photographer.
Arrangement
Photographs have been listed in chronological order, then alphabetically by venue, followed by subject.
Subject index
punk rock music
activists
Black people
lesbians
gay men
transgender people
queer people
- Status
- In Progress
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections Repository
