Nicholas Nixon

Nicholas Nixon (born October 27, 1947) is an American photographer, known for his work in black-and-white of people and cityscapes, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera. Nixon's subjects include marginalized people living along the Charles River near Boston and in Cambridge as well as cities in the South, people nearing death in nursing homes and those who suffered from AIDS (and their families), school children and the blind, and the intimacy of couples, his family and himself, predominantly in the nude. Nixon's photographs, resulting almost exclusively in black-and-white contact prints, record his subjects with meticulous detail in portraits and close-ups in order to facilitate a connection between the viewer and the subject.