The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Nicholas Nixon
American, born 1947
American, born 1947
Date
2014
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Accession #
2016.335
Dimensions
8 × 10 inches
Location
Currently Not on View
Description
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.