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Home : Picturing the Process : The Personal Document


Nicholas Nixon

American, b, 1947

Brown Sisters

1983
gelatin silver print


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Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters


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Cruel and Tender, by Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski (2003)
The Brown Sisters, by Nicholas Nixon (1999)
The Brown Sisters: Thirty-three Years, by Nicholas Nixon (2007)
Pictures of People, by Nicholas Nixon (1988)
Live, Love, Look, Last, by Nicholas Nixon (2009)

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Nicholas Nixon, Museum of Contemporary Art
Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, National Gallery of Art
Not Dark Yet, The Brown Sisters, Nicholas Nixon Photography

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The Photograph As Witness K-12 Curriculum

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a donation from PhotoWings.

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