Nicholas Nixon
1947–
Introduction
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.
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Introduction
Nixon worked as an architectural photographer in Detroit, Michigan from 1970 to 1971 and then as a freelance photographer in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1974. From 1977 to 1982, Nixon documented the life and people along the Charles River, Massachusetts.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, photographer, teacher
ULAN identifier
500037045
Names
Nicholas Nixon, Nick Nixon
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed July 11, 2026.
