The Brown Sisters

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Image courtesy of Fundació MAPFRE.

Nicholas Nixon (Detroit, Michigan 1947) holds a unique and outstanding place in the history of photography in recent decades. He focuses particularly on portraits and with a clear interest in the descriptive possibilities of the camera. His work reveals tension between what is visible (with an extraordinary clarity and compositional skill) and what is invisible, and the thoughts and concerns that emerge from his images.

The series The Brown Sisters is Nixon’s best-known work, consisting of portraits of his wife Beverly Brown (Bebe) and her three sisters, taken each year without interruption since 1975. From this simple starting point, Nixon has created one of the most convincing investigations into portraiture and the passing of time of contemporary photography.

This series was the first acquisition when Fundación MAPFRE started up its photography collection in 2009.

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