Dylan Vitone, '01, like his dad, Professor
Joe Vitone, is most at home with a camera. But
he didn't come to love the art until he took
his father's photography class as an undergraduate.
He went on to pursue his MFA at Massachusetts
College of Art, documenting the poverty-stricken
South Boston community. "My work is about
recording this insular community and all of
its idiosyncrasies," Vitone said. He used
a medium-format camera, creating panoramas to
capture poker games, a boxing match, a pick-up
basketball game. Now, Vitone lives in Pittsburgh
with wife Elaine (Garrison) Vitone, '00, who
is pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. He
recently was named winner of Pittsburgh's Silver
Eye Center for Photography 2004 national fellowship
and will soon mount a solo show there. And this
fall, he will follow his dad's lead once more:
He'll teach digital imaging at Carnegie Mellon
University. |
