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0. Nicholas Nixon - Pictures of People. Museum of Modern Art New York u.a.O. 1988/89. Querformat 28 x 22 cm. 126 S., 5 Textabb. sowie 85 ganzseit. Fotos in tritone, Ausst.verz., Bibliogr., Chronol. Broschur. In engl. Sprache. Nicolas Nixon, born in 1947, is one of the outstanding photographers of his generation. Since the mid-1970s, he has helped to lead a revival of the large-format camera and contact print, which had been out of fashion for over a generation. For the past decade he has photographed people. His work embraces the idea that sympathetic pictures of ordinary people can address the deepest human values. The eighty-five plates in this book include inventive group portraits, stark and eloquent portraits of the elderly, and excerpts from a work in progress of studies of people with AIDS. 90 illustrations, including 85 in tritone.…