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.
Could the pressure and pain of reunions be the message they could not disguise with each visit of the lens?
Oh, great. So, wealthy guilty liberals - the worst kind!
;-)
Yes, I should hasten to add that my appearance is not immune from change year to year, and I suspect most people that I haven’t seen in that yearly interval notice it. A very few, probably in all innocence, fecklessly even remark on it, so I’m not able to be in denial either, as if I possessed the fountain of youth or were the living picture of Dorian Gray. :)
People look at me like I’m nuts when I tell them that. It actually wasn’t that long ago that the camp was still open. I had several family members that lived there but we visited my aunt and uncle all the time. They started out in the tin one room cabins. They had 4 kids so they had 2. One was for sleeping in and one was for living quarters. Nothing in there but electricity. They cooked on a hotplate and carried water in from outside. Community bathrooms and showers.
From there they moved UP! to a 2 bedroom adobe duplex. It had an actual kitchen and bathroom. After that they moved to the 3 bedroom townhomes. They lived there for quite a few years and was still living there when I graduated 8th grade. They moved out not long after that.
I have pics of all my family members at the camp. If you would like to see them msg me an email addy and I’ll send them.
Treat him well and be the kind of person you can't wait to come home to ... and you will remain that to him, and more. Even when you are old and wrinkly, which we all will be some day.
One red-headed businessman friend, after he and two other of my beloved friends missed a plane (lingering too long at the airport bar!!!) to make it to an important sales-pitch meeting and when they finally arrived on a next plane, blew it complete with sweat dripping off their foreheads and nervous insecurity ... on the plane ride back, all of them glum and feeling (understandably! [^) distinctly like idiots, this redheaded friend reminisced about the meeting, holding out his hand as if he was cupping something valuable in his hand -- "We had 'em! We had 'em right right there!"
So what was an embarrassing disaster instantly became occasion for much laughter and mere chagrin, 30 years ago. It became a longstanding model for humor and growth; all three have remained good friends, and still are. And they still reminisce with that story and everybody laughs so hard we have tears running down our faces!
That is an interesting possibility!
Almost. Will Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra Act 2, Scene 2. Cleo had some years on Tony, peripheral characters discussing their relationship.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/antony-and-cleopatra/page_84.html
Men can be that way sometimes!
Men can be that way sometimes!
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