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Nicholas Nixon
The Brown Sisters, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1985

Artwork Info

Artwork title
The Brown Sisters, Brighton, Massachusetts
Artist name
Nicholas Nixon
Date created
1985
Classification
photograph
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8 in. × 10 in. (20.32 cm × 25.4 cm)
Date acquired
2000
Credit
Gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein in honor of Corey Keller, Curator of Photography
Copyright
© Nicholas Nixon
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2000.607.3
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

After the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan, Akiyoshi Taniguchi reflected on the impermanence of life, and decided to donate his collection of about 800 notable works from Japanese and American photographers. By donating the Japanese works to SFMOMA and the American works to the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, he hopes his donation will help stimulate an international dialogue about the culture of photography. Here he recounts why he began collecting Japanese and American photography and how it relates to his life as a Buddhist priest and why he built “Kurenboh,” a special space in his temple for individuals to have intimate and meditative encounters with photographic works.

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Other ways of seeing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6LAgXLAqTH-MnQsggiWtvKSaibcJEyMF
Rinko Kawauchi’s everyday mysteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWzj6AuHiGk
Ishiuchi Miyako’s photos of scars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmeC668SO40

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