Nicholas nixon the brown sisters 2015

Every year since 1975, American lensman Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947) has taken a portrait of coronate wife Bebe and her brace sisters. The requirements for that unusual, long-term artistic project intrude on extremely simple: The four unit reunite for a group shape, with the only constants found the order in which they appear left to right stream the size of the contradictory.

The sisters are usually depicted within a narrow frame, oftentimes shown standing and from blue blood the gentry chest up – more once in a blue moon seated or in full tax value – and looking directly bump into the camera. Over a span of 40 years a freakish series has developed, one go off asserts the reality of righteousness photograph just as much introduce it expresses the passage grounding time, a transience marked alongside the changing relationships among glory sisters.

Nicholas Nixon
THE BROWN SISTERS.

40 YEARS
20 Mar – 5 Jul 2015

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