Nicholas Nixon

Tom Moran, East Braintree, Massachusetts
1987

A black and white photograph capturing the back of a person standing in front of a window, with one hand raised against the glass pane. The person's back is bare, and the natural light from the window highlights the contours of their shoulder blades and arm.

A black and white photograph capturing the back of a person standing in front of a window, with one hand raised against the glass pane. The person's back is bare, and the natural light from the window highlights the contours of their shoulder blades and arm.

Not on view

Date
1987

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8in. (19.5 × 24.4 cm)

Accession number
2003.250

Series
People with AIDS

Edition
22/50

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/19387

Exhibitions

Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection

Feb 6–May 22, 2004

Nicholas Nixon
18 works in the collection

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