Daniel Mainzer
Material Handlers
(Mansfield, Ohio, 1945 - )
1976-1987
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Daniel Mainzer
2021.14.13

Tod Papageorge
Central Park
(Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1940 - )
1978
Gelatin silver print
10 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. (26.7 x 39.6 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Huntington T. Block Insurance
1992.93

Peter Neff
Untitled [Two Girls]
(North America. The United States.Ohio.Cincinnati, 1827 - 1903, North America.The United States.Ohio.Cleveland)
1856-1860
Melainotype (tintype) with applied color and gold
2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (6.4 x 4.8 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Purchased with funds donated in memory of Gladys E. McVicker
2000.39

Vincent Cianni
Rollerbladers, East River Pier, North 7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(North America. The United States.Pennsylvania.Scranton, 1952 - )
1995
Gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (39.4 x 47.0 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the artist in honor of Barbara Tannenbaum
2011.152

Kinship

Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

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After it was first revealed to the world in 1839, photography almost immediately replaced painting as the most popular way to record the likeness of a person. But photography offered even more—it could also reveal the delicate, vibrant relationships between people with new fidelity and immediacy. The pictures in this gallery represent human kinship across time in many forms and with the unique insight that photography provides.

This exhibition will serve as a new theme in Share the Past, Create the Future, our presentation of the Museum’s collection in celebration of our centennial.