5/24/2023 0 Comments Brown sisters books![]() ![]() ![]() “So seeing the sisters, for a lot of people, gives them a reliable marker that a year has passed.” “We are all aware of time passing and us not being aware of it while it’s passing,” he has said. Out of that idea, though, Nixon has made a series with an extraordinary cumulative power that rests on photography’s singular ability to capture the passage of time and, with it, human ageing and the lurking shadow of mortality. It is, among other things, a testament to the power of one great, simple idea. The series, which showed in its entirety for the first time at the Fraenkel Gallery booth at Paris Photo last week, opens at MoMA, New York this week. He also chose to use an 8x10in view camera on a tripod and black-and-white film. ![]() The following year, after what he tactfully describes as “some degree of negotiation” with his subjects, two of whom wanted to be in the middle of the portraits some of the time, Nixon settled on the order that would define the series: left to right, Heather, Mimi, BeBe and Laurie. Four years in to the series – the 1978 portrait. ![]()
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