Thoughts on Nicholas Nixon:

"Once decried as another victimization of the person with AIDS, Nixon's photographs are now being reconsidered as historically important and aesthetically significant, as highly exceptional counterpoints to the by now entrenched iconography or the healthy and beautiful person with HIV/AIDS."
- A New York University literary review of People with Aids


(on his School series) "His pictures persuade us that we see individuals, not symptoms of a problem, or worse, heroes of a solution."
(Nixon's work) "embraces the idea that sympathetic photographs of ordinary... people can address the deepest human values."
- Peter Galassi, Chief Photography Curator at the Museum of Modern Art