Nicholas Nixon: People

Photographing with an 8×10-inch view camera, the artist engaged strangers to create humanist portraits in the shared public spaces of parks, beaches, front porches, and stoops.

Children gathered around a window looking out or standing next to the building outside
Black-and-white photograph of four children reclining on stone steps in the sun
Black-and-white photograph of young children peering out of an open doorway and window with a boy leaning on the outer wall
Black-and-white photograph of a seated young shirtless man with his arm around a standing young girl in a light-colored dress on a porch
Black-and-white photograph of six children and a man seated around a couch on a porch
Black-and-white photograph of a group of children gathered near a brick wall
Black-and-white photograph of six children gathered on the stoop of two apartments
Black-and-white photograph of a young woman leaning on a doorframe on a porch surrounded by several other seated people
Black-and-white photograph of three young adults reclining on blankets on a beach
Black-and-white photograph of a man standing with his hands on his hips on a picnic blanket over a woman putting up her hair
Black-and-white photograph of a man and a woman lying on a blanket next to a riverbank
Black-and-white photograph of two young men in swimming shorts standing over a young woman sunbathing in a bathing suit lying down with her eyes closed
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