January 9, 2008

Nicholas Nixon

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Next Thursday here in New York Nicholas Nixon will be opening a show titled Patients which is a must see... It features arresting images of terminally ill patients. Nixon turns the photographic cliché of shooting the dying it's head by making savagely beautiful almost sensual portraits that are at once sculptural and delicately, tragically human. Most of the images from the show aren't online yet, but I expect they will be soon.

Nixon became part of the modern art photography canon for his Brown Sisters project, but his portfolio is wide ranging. I wish galleries/phtographers would realize the value of putting up older projects online. Nixon's Photos from one Year for example is a no brainer for the web.

posted at 02:48 AM by raul

Filed under: photographers

TAGS: large format (2) nixon (1) patients (1)

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01/12/08 07:23 AM

Thanks for an interesting blog, Raul.

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