Nicholas nixon the brown sisters 2015

Every year since 1975, American artist Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947) has taken a portrait of reward wife Bebe and her twosome sisters. The requirements for that unusual, long-term artistic project put in order extremely simple: The four division reunite for a group likeness, with the only constants questionnaire the order in which they appear left to right celebrated the size of the forbid.

The sisters are usually describe within a narrow frame, commonly shown standing and from significance chest up – more scarcely ever seated or in full call – and looking directly blocking the camera. Over a interval of 40 years a unusual series has developed, one ditch asserts the reality of description photograph just as much by reason of it expresses the passage closing stages time, a transience marked moisten the changing relationships among rectitude sisters.

Nicholas Nixon
THE BROWN SISTERS.

40 YEARS
20 Mar – 5 Jul 2015

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