interesting thoughts by NIXON:
as taken from "Family Pictures"

Why do you use and 8x10 view camera?
I use it to get a contact print; it's no more complicated than that.
Sensuality seems to be prevelant in your work. What's that about?
It's just my pleasure---just me. It has to do with the way I love the contact print,
and what I love about people: their bodies, and gestures, their separateness, and
their eyes.
Also, there is alot of contact between people--touching and caressing--just physical stuff going on.
Partly thats what happened when I was there. But these are the moments I choose
to like. It's just my taste. It's what I love, and what I believe in intelectually, and
what I love to look at. It seems inexhaustible, and connected to other aspects of
culture and history that matter to me.
Aging is a major theme in your work. Is that something you've always been interested in?
Instinctively, yes. But it's not something that I'm methodically trying to prove or to
chronicle. It's simply part of my energy to be interested in things that are
ephemeral---the feeling that everybody's mortal.