Here is a picture of their Grandma:
Posted on 12/06/2015 7:05:51 PM PST by lulu16
When Nicholas Nixon took an unremarkable group shot of his wife Bebe and her three sisters in 1975, they had no way of knowing that it was the beginning of a remarkable art project. Nixon continued to replicate the original portrait every year thereafter, documenting the effect of time on the four women. This is a selection of some of those amazing photos.
Translation: The older I get, the better I was when I was young.
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Apparently we have a lot more in common than just excellent basketball skills.
Someone of the four die in 2013 ?
Here’s a good example of why I think men have the advantage in aging.
I found a description of this project and the last picture.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/magazine/01-brown-sisters-forty-years.html?_r=0
I find their poses and faces poignant and sad, the tenderness of their slender hips in the first picture and then to their faces 40 years later barely softening, except his wife’s, who maybe is smiling at him, her constant photographer.
This was truly art.
Love it! (Myself I could throw a football a quarter mile! If coach had put me in, we’d have won CIF!)
Here is a picture of their Grandma:
I'm sure that the photographer is to blame for their severe looks in all the pictures. "Just give me your best 'stone in my shoe' look, girls."
It's for art after all.
Time has been kind to me. Back in ‘75 my hips were made of mere bone. Now they are titanium! :O
Throughout this series, we watch these women age, undergoing life’s most humbling experience.
I don’t know if humbling is a good description for life’s inevitable progress toward its end. It’s what happens and we deal with it if we’re sane. There are actually good things about accepting wisdoms accumulated before the end. I accept my end and wouldn’t wish to go back. It’s part of life.
LOL!
I’m as good once as I once was. Never did get into basketball though.
I found this very interesting. For the last 20 years I’ve done annual fire inspections of businesses where I meet people and never see them again until the following year. I’ll carry this image of them in my mind, but I am often surprised— sometimes even shocked— over how much some people change in the course of a single year (a very few people hardly ever seem to change at all).
Mine, not so much. Sorry feminazis ... men and women are very very different. And thank god for that.
I have changed a bit since then.:
They sure don’t appear happy.
Ah...when life was simple and nothing like a big toot to put a smile on your face. It’s all downhill from there.
I think something stressful happened to the family between 2005 and 2007 — maybe a death in the family? They aged more in those two years than in any other period.
Exactly so. Well stated.
You see, men and women are not so different when aging.
As men age, they all begin to look more and more like that famous Scottish actor, Sean Connery. Unfortunately so do women.
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