Nicholas Nixon
American, born 1947

Nixon’s best-known work is the The Brown Sisters, a series of black-and-white portraits of his wife Bebe and her three sisters that he has taken each year since 1975. While the clothes, hairstyles and framing changes, there are certain continuities. Nixon always uses a large-format camera at roughly eye-level, mounted on a tripod, and the sisters always pose in the same order: Laurie, Heather, Bebe and Mimi.