Daddy and Me, a Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and His Daughter Camera

by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Told in black-and-white photographs with short-sentenced captions, Daddy and Me, by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, is a gentle, domestic father-daughter love story with a powerful this father is Arthur Ashe, the tennis champion and gentleman who died of AIDS in February 1993. "Daddy and Me" is about reassurance and about connectedness to a parent who, because of illness, will not be there in his child's future, but is living and sharing the present they have. What is so potent and is captured so movingly in these intimate, un-self-conscious photographs is that on her father's "bad days" of reactions to medication and feeling ill, the child is able to support him. The photographs will help Camera Ashe remember, and can help the rest of us who knew her father only as a public figure understand something important about children living with seriously ill parents.

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Published January 1, 1993