The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Nicholas Nixon
American, born 1947
Details
Title
The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Artist/Maker
Nicholas Nixon (American, born 1947)
Date
2014
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection
Accession #
2016.335
Location
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