Joseph Vitone Family Records
name: label: Donor
content: Vitone, Joseph
place: label: Place
content: Ohio
label: Place
content: Akron (Ohio)
topic: label: Topic
content: Marriage
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Family -- United States
label: Topic
content: Kinship
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These photographs were printed by Mr. Joseph Vitone in 2004 from the original negatives, especially as a gift to the Archives Center.
creator: label: Donor
content: Vitone, Joseph
setName: label: See more items in
content: Joseph Vitone Family Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection consists of photographic images of the Vitone family in Akron, Ohio and other locations, as part of an ongoing photographic document called "Family Records." This is an ongoing portrait project which for the past 20 years has used large-format negatives to document families living around the Rust Belt City of Akron, Ohio, former home to the country's major rubber and tire producers. These portraits offer personal yet unsentimental views of the subjects finding purpose and evolving family structures in these largely blue-collar communities that at times wrestle with job insecurity and problems accompanying alcohol and opioid use.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joseph Vitone holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is Professor of Photocommunications at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. In 1998, he began a photographic document project called "Family Records" using for the most part, immediate and extended families of both Vitone and his wife.  The Vitones grew up in north-eastern Ohio. While the series also includes photographs taken in other states of farther flung family, the majority of the portrait subjects live in or near Akron, former home to the country's major rubber and tire producers including Goodyear, Goodrich, and Firestone. Norton and Barberton and other more rural communities neighboring Akron, serve as locations for many of these images along with Akron proper.  He is the father of photographer Dylan Vitone.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998-2004
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0883
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into two series. 

Series 1: Photoprints

Series 2: Other Materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Jennifer Burger (intern), supervised by David Haberstich, archivist, January 2004.
altformavail: label: Alternate Form Available
content: Original negatives retained by the artist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 2000-2010
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists primarily of 37 photographic prints, portraits of Vitone's extended family in the Akron, Ohio, area, plus other locations, forms part of an ongoing photographic document called "Family Records"; also two CD-Roms containing images and text. 

Most of the images are posed environmental portraits showing the subjects' homes or other personal contexts. The original negatives are large-format; 4" x 5". The collection is arranged into two series.  Series one is the photoprints and series two contains other materials.