25 years of the Brown sisters, Nicholas Nixon. Four sisters photographed once a year for 25 years.
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• Aug 05 2004 • 6:40PM
that's really interesting, but i want to know more about these people. which one is bebe? did the one have sister have cancer? what happened during the year(s) that make the two hug periodically? etc.
• Aug 05 2004 • 9:30PM
The press release tells me that Bebe is second from the right. This is a wonderful series of photos.
• Aug 06 2004 • 1:15AM
I'd like to see this in a slideshow format, to move through the photos with some continuity.
That being said, it is a great set of photos. All of the women are quite intense-looking, very beautiful in kind of an industrial way. The camera captures that look quite well.
• Aug 06 2004 • 3:12AM
i hope nick didn't stop taking them after the expo in '99 because in 2024 a '50 years of the four sisiters' would be awesome.
• Aug 06 2004 • 11:08AM
The thing I find really interesting is that the sort of cautious - self-assured - serious expressions they have thoughout the photos remains constant. I would think that if you simply saw a photo of them at one particular time, you would assume that their expressions were an accident of good photography, as if their one-time severity were merely a pose. Instead, when you put the passage of time into the context of individuals, you see something of the real person.
• Aug 06 2004 • 11:09AM
This is second only in my mind to this photoset of an Argentinean family which takes their own portrait every year on June 17th.
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barnes • Aug 05 2004 • 6:13PM
Stunning.