Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters Thirty-Three Years SIGNED COPY with show card

Description: Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters Thirty-Three Years - SIGNED COPY Also included is a show card from his 2008 show at Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC "Patients" (see images for details) The book is in excellent condition with a small mark on the bottom of the rear cover and a few very tiny white dots also on the back cover, see image for details. The book appears like new and the pages are all in like new condition. -- In August of 1974, the photographer Nicholas Nixon made a group portrait of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters, Heather, Mimi and Laurie--the Brown sisters. He did not keep that image, but in 1975 he made another portrait of the four, who then ranged in age between 15 and 25. Working with an 8x10-inch view camera, whose large negatives capture a wealth of detail and a luscious continuity of tone, Nixon did the same in 1976, and this second successful photograph prompted him to suggest to the sisters that they assemble for another portrait every year. The women agreed, and have continued to agree every year since. In 1999, when the resulting series of photographs reached its twenty-fifth anniversary, The Museum of Modern Art published The Brown Sisters, presenting all of the portraits in sequence. That edition is out of print. Now, as the family's "annual rite of passage," as Nixon has called it, hits year 33--a third of a century--the Museum is publishing a second edition, including eight new photographs that bring the series up to date. "We might wish," writes Peter Galassi, the Museum's Chief Curator of Photography, "that our family included a photographer of such discipline and skill…but otherwise Nixon's pictures do what all family photographs do: they fix a presence and mark the passage of time, graciously declining to expound or explain."

Price: 69.99 USD

Location: Denver, Colorado

End Time: 2025-01-19T18:28:21.000Z

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