Nick Nixon.
This is in reference to his use of the 8x10 view camera as opposed to the more convenient and portable 35mm his peers used. Thinner slices of time what a wonderful phrase, almost as if the man looks at time as if it were a loaf of bread, to be carved by him with his camera in any way he pleases. Looking at his work bears this out, especially the series of the Brown Sisters. It's strange how the concepts that seem quite simple, such as photographing a group of four sisters each year, can carry the most power. How will this series end? Will the photographer die first? So many possibilities. Perhaps it will end before anyone dies, or continue until it is no longer possible to do another shot. This touches on so many things as I look at the series of the women from the youngest going up to present day. We all go through this, as many before us have and hopefully many more after us. Youth, adulthood and irresistibly pulled forward by time as we move towards the unknown. So simple and so powerful.
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