Pictures of people

" The contemporary American photographer Nicholas Nixon is the subject of amajor exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art from September 15 to November 13,1988. Organized by Peter Galassi, curator, Department of Photography, NICHOLAS NIXON: PICTURES OF PEOPLE presents approximately 120 black-and-white photographs surveying Nixon's work of the past decade. In this work Nixon hasbrought fresh conviction to the idea that sympathetic pictures of ordinary people can address the deepest human values." - Excerpt from MoMA Press Release August 1988 (see link).