Three Gestures
Three gloves, picked up from the street, seem to retain the gestures of the people who lost them. Read more…
The Brown Sisters, 2010
In 1975, after photographing his wife with her three sisters, Boston photographer Nicholas Nixon decided to take an annual portrait of them. Although Nixon changed the location and the frame of the portraits from year to year, he posed the sisters in the same postion--his wife, Bebe, the second from the right and Heather, Mimi, and Laurie around her. He ended this project in 2010, thirty-six years after the initial portrait. In a recent artist talk, I discussed how Nixon's Brown Sisters uses the continuity of placement to draw attention to similarities and differences over time and among… Read more…