Nicholas Nixon
Bob Sappenfield, Dorchester, Mass.

Bob Sappenfield, Dorchester, Mass.

© 1988 Nicholas Nixon; courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Bob Sappenfield, Dorchester, Mass.
Bob Sappenfield, Dorchester, Mass.
ArtistAmerican, born 1947
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Bob Sappenfield, Dorchester, Mass.
  • from the series People With AIDS
DateAugust 1988
PlaceDorchester, Massachusetts, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Nina and Michael Zilkha
Object number2010.195.55
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Nicholas Nixon began photographing people
living with AIDS in the greater Boston area in 1987, when there was a great
deal of prejudice, fear, and misunderstanding surrounding HIV/AIDS. Through his
revealing, sensitive portraits, Nixon sought to encourage empathy and
compassion. When this series was first shown at MoMA in 1988, protesters
distributed fliers to museum visitors, reminding them that
each of
Nixon’s subjects was “a human being whose health has deteriorated not simply
due to a virus, but due to government inaction, the inaccessibility of
affordable health care, and institutionalized neglect in the forms of
heterosexism, racism, and sexism.”




Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
In pencil verso lower left: "Bob Sappenfield Dorchester, Mass. August 1988 20/50"
Signed in pencil verso lower right: "Nicholas Nixon"

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