Nicholas Nixon [SEP] place of birth
Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon (born October 27, 1947) is a photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera.
Biography.
Nixon was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan.
Influenced by the photographs of Edward Weston and Walker Evans, he began working with large-format cameras. Whereas most professional photographers had abandoned these cameras in favor of shooting on 35 mm film with more portable cameras, Nixon preferred the format because it allowed prints to
wife, Paula Marshall (Pauline E. Youngs), who worked with him in his act. Paula died aged 28 in a car crash in 1956, the year after the birth of their son Nicholas. Nixon remarried in 1961 to Vivienne Nichols, the daughter of the bandleader Eric Robinson. They had a daughter, Mandy (Amanda E Nixon), in 1961.
Selected filmography.
- "The Spider's Web" (1960)
External links.
- BFI Database on The David Nixon Show
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