The Brown Sisters, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Nicholas Nixon
American, born 1947
Details
Title
The Brown Sisters, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Artist/Maker
Nicholas Nixon (American, born 1947)
Date
1980
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8 × 10 inches
Credit
Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection
Accession #
2016.301
On View
Currently not on view
In 1975, on a vacation to visit his new wife’s family, Nicholas Nixon casually took a portrait of his wife and her three sisters lined up, staring directly into the camera. Nixon proposed they restage the photograph each year thereafter, resulting in one of the most groundbreaking serial portraits in the history of photography. Each photograph in this astounding grid represents the passage of one year in the sisters’ lives; together, they document both the flow of time and the unbreakable bonds of family.
Image Copyright
© Nicholas Nixon, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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