Maureen Chiminello, Boston Medical Center
Nicholas Nixon
American, born 1947
2007
A gelatin silver print portrait that frames an older woman in a hospital bed to reveal intimacy, vulnerability, and the physical traces of illness.
An extreme close-up arrests you with the texture of weathered skin, tired eyes and a bandaged throat, making the encounter uncomfortably immediate and compassionate at once.
Bringing documentary intensity to intimate portraiture, the work continues a photographic lineage that probes care, aging and mortality while asking viewers to consider the ethics of looking.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
22 7/16 × 17 7/8" (57 × 45.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
393.2008
Palette
Exhibitions
