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June 1, 2013
Nicholas Nixon, early architectural views of Boston and New York were taken from rooftops in the mid-seventies and were exhibited at New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House in 1975.
Nicholas Nixon, View of State Street, Boston, 1976, from the series Boston Views 1974 – 1976
Gelatin silver print, Baryt paper (card)
This is a great use of the the traditional (and by now archaic) tools of the medium - an 8x10 view camera, black-and-white film, contact prints when Boston was the city was in the process of transformation:
Nicholas Nixon, Buildings on Tremont Street, Boston, 1975; from the series Boston Views 1974 – 1976
Nixon returned to this subject matter to photograph Boston’s changing urban landscape during the Big Dig highway development project. He photographed first with an 8x10 view camera again; then with an 11x14 view camera.
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