Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947) is a contemporary American photographer based in Boston. He is best known for his ongoing series, The Brown Sisters, making a portrait of his wife and her three sisters every year since 1975. He prefers to use a large format camera in his image-making for its capacity to capture poignant expressions and detailed textures of his subjects. Nixon’s work was included in the 1975 exhibition, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”, alongside Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz. In 1987, he began his series People with AIDS, which was one of the first photographic examinations of the disease.
Nixon has been honored with three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Massachusetts Council for the Arts “New Works” Grant. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), among others.