Nicholas Nixon: Old People & Patients

With deep compassion, the artist documents the challenges and struggles of people in the final stages of their lives. The complex considerations of subject and form provoke a meditation on the depth of the human experience.

Black-and-white photograph of an old man pushing his fingers into his temples.

Black-and-white photograph of a seated emaciated man resting his forearms on his knees

Black-and-white photograph of the hand of an elderly person resting on a tray table

Black-and-white three-quarter photographic portrait of an elderly woman

Black-and-white photgraph of the back of a person's bald head

Black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman lying in bed raising her open hand to the viewew

Black-and-white photograph of a woman cradling a crying baby's head beneath her chin

Black-and-white photograph of a young man in bed embracing an older man on his shoulder with one arm

Black-and-white photograph of the bare back of a man with his hand against a windowpane