‘Who are these sisters? We’re never told (though we know their names: from left, Heather, Mimi, Bebe and Laurie; Bebe, of the penetrating gaze, is Nicholas Nixon’s wife)’ writes Susan Minot (whose novels are definitely among ‘the fifty books we wish we had published’ on our shop table) in an excellent piece about the photographs in the New York Times here. This is 1986.