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February 9, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. EST. Nicholas Nixon, "The Brown Sisters, New Canaan, Connecticut," 1975. (Nicholas Nixon /Fraenkel Gallery) They're as steady, stoic and unflappable as art gets.


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Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years of the Brown Sisters Through April 5 at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Call 314-721-0072 or click here . Follow RFT critic at large Malcolm Gay on Twitter @malcolmgay .


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They are direct, sometimes confrontational, occasionally aggressive—but also, at times, vulnerable, wounded, uncertain. In Nicholas Nixon's series "The Brown Sisters," the same four figures (the eponymous sisters) stand in the same order for 42 sequential photographs, taken over a period of 42 years.


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The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975.. Digital design: Rodrigo De Benito Sanz. Photo editor: Joanna Milter.. 2017; Meet the Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan Jan. 19.


Diversity is beautiful The Brown Sisters

Nicholas Nixon. The Brown Sisters, Truro, Massachusetts. 2017. Gelatin silver print. 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.5 × 24.4 cm). Gift of the artist. 735.2017. © 2023.


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2017 Classification photograph Medium gelatin silver print Dimensions 7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in. (19.7 × 24.4 cm) Date acquired 2017 Credit. The Brown Sisters, Brookline, Massachusetts. 2018. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times.


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The Museum of Modern Art first exhibited Nicholas Nixon's photographs of the Brown Sisters in 1976, as part of his first-ever solo exhibition titled Longer Views: 40 Photographs by Nick Nixon. The series was in its infancy at the time and only two portraits of the sisters existed, but John Szarkowski, then Director of the MoMA's Department of Photography and an advocate of Nixon's work.


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The Brown sisters, 1975 (1975) by Nicholas Nixon Fundacion MAPFRE. One photo every year, for over four decades. In 1975, photographer Nicholas Nixon took a picture of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters. The girls stood in a line—first Heather, 23, then Mimi, 15, Bebe, 25, and Laurie, 21—posing casually and gazing impassively into the camera.


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Dec 4, 2014, 08:59 AM EST. | Updated Dec 6, 2017. LEAVE A COMMENT. Nicholas Nixon was 26 years old when he began photographing the Brown sisters. It was August 1974, and he had been married to his wife Beverly (née Brown) for three years. Bebe, as she's known, posed with Laurie, Heather and Mimi during a family gathering, and though Nixon.


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The museum recently acquired The Brown Sisters, an intimate series of forty photographs that spans four decades and captures the poignancy of family relationships and bonds between siblings.In 1975, Nicholas Nixon, a photographer known for his landscapes, took a photo of his wife Bebe and her three sisters Heather, Mimi, and Laurie during a family gathering.


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Since 1975, Nicholas Nixon has been photographing his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters, Mimi, Laurie, and Heather, every year for what has become a series called The Brown Sisters.Nixon uses an 8 x 10 inch view camera to take many exposures, from which he selects the final portrait.


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The US photographer has taken a portrait of his wife BeBe and her three siblings every year since 1974, making us confront the passing of time, family ties and our own mortality, writes Sean O'Hagan


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The sole exception is 2017, which has just one image: the latest iteration of Nixon's most famous body of work, "The Brown Sisters." The series consists of an annual group portrait of Nixon.


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Nicholas Nixon The Brown Sisters, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. 1997. gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm] First name * Last. Brookline, 2017. gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 inches (sheet) [61 x 50.8 cm] Inquire. Nicholas Nixon, Our bedroom curtain, Brookline, 2017. gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 inches (sheet.


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Nixon's showcase, titled "The Brown Sisters," was a temporal assemblage of 45 horizontally placed portraits featuring his wife Bebe, alongside her four sisters — Heather, Mimi and Laurie. Nicholas Nixon was born in Detroit in 1947. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in American literature.