The Galerie le Château d’Eau presents the first major exhibition in France of Nicholas Nixon, an emblematic figure of American documentary photography of the last decades.
Nicholas Nixon has exhibited at MoMA New York three times, in 1976, 1988 and 2014, in personal presentations. Besides most of the major American museums, his works have been shown in European institutions in Hanover, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid and Barcelona among others. He is considered an absolute reference in documentary photography in its purest and most American way: in black and white, with a large format camera, with contact prints that he makes himself and with a tireless curiosity for the world in which he lives. The city like his family, AIDS patients – which he was one of the very first to photograph – like newborns, mixed couples or even nudes, details of his familiar environment like the trees for which he is passionate, children who punctuate the space or even elderly people at the end of their life, self-portraits, alone or with Bebe, his wife but also curtains which capture wind and light in front of a window, everything is a pretext to explore the possibilities of photography in its relation to reality.
