Mitch Epstein, DAD, 2004, 25 minutes.
Family Business
Family Business is a multimedia project about Epstein's father and the demise of the family furniture store and real estate business. Through photographs, video, archival material, interviews, storyboards, and a personal essay, Epstein recounts William Epstein’s life, which mirrors the success and downfall of Holyoke, Massachusetts, a formerly thriving northeastern industrial town. Family Business is a chronicle of one man and one town’s American dream gone awry.