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The Brown Sisters: Over 40 Years of Photos
Nicholas Nixon used the images of four sisters to portray the evolution of human emotion over time
4 min readMay 3, 2021
Nicholas Nixon took the first photo of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, Mimi, Laurie, and Heather in July of 1975. Every year for the next 40 years, he recreated the photo with variations. This allows his viewers to consider their own interpretation of the messages the sisters are conveying in their slightly aged progressed photos.
It all began in 1975 when Nixon got the idea for the photo series and asked the sisters to pose in the order that they wanted. Throughout the years, it was brought up to change the order, but the best shots of the ones taken were always of them in the original order.
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