If you're anything like most people, you have a conflicted sense of how deeply to look in the mirror every morning. Portrait and documentary photographer Nicholas Nixon had the nerve to stick his mug in front of a huge 11 x 14 inch view camera and make photographs of parts of his body that are larger than life.

A show of these pictures, mixed with some of his new Boston cityscapes, opens July 9 at the Fraenkel Gallery, which is sure to have you shaving and tweezing extra carefully for at least a few days afterward.

Nicholas Nixom's "Self & City"
Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary
Tuesday - Friday 10:30 - 5:30
Saturday: 11 - 5