Nick Nixon: Photographing Slowly for 40 Years – The New York Times

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Nick Nixon: Photographing Slowly for 40 Years

For more than four decades, Nick Nixon has worked methodically to create images, using a view camera and printing in the darkroom. A new retrospective of his work reminds him of the importance of slowing down.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/nick-nixon-photographing-slowly-for-forty-years/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

For over 40 years Nick Nixon has photographed slowly, mining one vein of work deeply before moving on to his next project. Ninety-five percent of his photographs, he says, have been taken with a view camera and contact-printed from large negatives in the darkroom.