I thought that this feature in today's New York Times magazine would be especially interesting to those of us participating in the Vintage forum. Four sisters have had a picture taken every year for 40 years, always together and always in the same order. The series starts in 1975 with the four of them as young ladies and ends in 2014 as they enter old age. In their faces you can see the evolution to womanhood, middle age and to old age.

This is one of the nicest features I've seen in the Times in a very long time. Take a look. Look at the photos in order of the years and see time passing as it has for all of us.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...yt-region&_r=0

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...rty-years.html

 

Amazing, thanks for the link Rob
Levi

 

Nice! Wish my sisters and I had done something like that over the years. Now we are more spread out over the east coast and there have been times I don't see one of my sisters for more than a year.

 

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Beautiful! This is why I'm drawn to B&W photography -- it requires some interpretation from the viewer and doesn't misrepresent the image. If only I would have done the same with my brother over the years.

 

Wow! Very cool!

 

This series of photographs fascinates me, thrills me and saddens me all at the same time.

The effects of time fascinates me. Look at the four of them in 1975 and the pictures throughout the 1970s. They look fresh faced, ready to take on the world. In the photos of the late 1980s and early 1990s they look strong and self assured. In the photos in the 2010s they look worn and tired.

The photos thrill me knowing that there still is such a thing as family and that four sisters could be close enough to pose for pictures together for 40 years. As old fashioned a notion as it may be there is something very special about a family staying together for all of those years.

The photos sadden me because they remind me that while I'm very close with my younger sister, neither of us have seen, heard from or spoken to our older sister in over 30 years. We don't even know where she lives. I think back to when we were kids and how very close we all were, and I wonder how in the world could this have happened.

I think this was a very beautiful feature and I'm very glad the New York Times published it. I hope those four sisters live long enough to have another 40 years worth of photos taken.

 

Thanks for sharing that link. I see the level of affection (or is it appreciation) shows in their expressions more every year.