Michelle Winterbotham with father, Duke Dye, in driveway, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

From the series "Family Records"

2010

Digital inkjet print, Epson HDX ink on Epson Legacy Platine

20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of the artist

2025.3.7

More Information

Vitone’s statement on the series reads in part: “The photographs generate dialogues between one another at a number of levels, some directly, as in lineage and interpersonal relation of mother to daughter, father to son, or brother to sister, and some at less specific and more universal places as well. Comment is made on finding purpose or respite in what can be a painful life, on time and aging, on moving from childhood to adulthood, on relations sustained or lost through the years, on masculinity and femininity, on sensuality and beauty seen not only in youth but in age, and on our valuing of ourselves and others not only because of our strengths but, perhaps even more so, by reason of our vulnerabilities.”