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Nicholas Nixon and the Brown Sisters
The talk this morning about family blogs made me remember Nicholas Nixon’s Brown Sisters— a series of thirty-one portraits of his wife and her ...
The talk this morning about family blogs made me remember Nicholas Nixon’s Brown Sisters— a series of thirty-one portraits of his wife and her sisters that he’s made since 1975.
The women are always shot with a view camera, and appear in the same order:
Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie.
I think they’re rather melancholy. But still beautiful.
Here are some of my favorites:
New Canaan, CT, 1975
E. Greenwich, RI, 1980
Brighton, MA, 1985
Woodstock, NY 1990
Related: British photographer Idris Khan makes art about art, with his image superimposing the Nixon portraits, entitled every … Nicholas Nixon’s Brown Sisters.
This image sort of sums things up nicely for me.
See more of his Khan’s (amazing) work here.
from the year in pictures.
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