A World Of Art: The Brown Sisters By Nicholas Nixon

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A piece of art that includes the theme of love, in the textbook A World of Art, is a set of photographs called The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon. The book includes two of the pictures one being a photograph taken in 1976 and the last (at the time the book came out) taken in 2011. Mr. Nixon would take a new picture every year of his wife and her sisters to get the ageing process. If you look at all the photographs you can not only see the gradual ageing process but how their relationships with each other change over time. Nixon uses black and white photography and always has then in the same order from left to right. The most genuine love I have experienced in my life is through my family and I am really pleased I was able to find

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