The Brown Sisters

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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 the sisters, a technique I drew on to present my Marlboro Lights cigarette packs.

You can see Nixon's remarkable project  here.