Sam, Lexington
- Photographer
- Nicholas Nixon, American, born 1947
- Date
- 1996
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- Lexington, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- printed in
- Brookline, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Funds given by Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, and partial gift of the artist
- Rights
- © Nicholas Nixon, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Object Number
- 135:2003
NOTES
In this extreme close-up of his son Sam as an adolescent, Nicholas Nixon focuses attention on the qualities of his hair, his freckles, his ear, his eye. Nixon's intensity of looking can bring ordinary subjects so close to us that they become strange and fantastic. In contact printing from his large negatives, Nixon comments that he is able to make images "whose quality of realism is so heightened that it's sometimes surreal. Yet I can't make it up: it's absolutely there."
Provenance
- 2003
Nicholas Nixon (b.1947), Brookline, MA, USA
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from and given by the artist [1]
Note:
[1] Invoice dated May 19, 2003 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
Nicholas Nixon (b.1947), Brookline, MA, USA
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from and given by the artist [1]
Note:
[1] Invoice dated May 19, 2003 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
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