nan goldin

nan goldin






Nan Goldin is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading photographers. Nan Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of eighteen she began to photograph her family and friends—whom she considered her extended family—in New York, Boston, Provincetown, London, and Berlin. She has since lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that represents an intimate and compelling photographic portrait of our time. First published in 1986, her Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a contemporary classic and one of the most influential series of photographs of the 1980's. It was originally presented as a slide show accompanied by a rock soundtrack and brought an intimate, even amateur, use of photography into the arena of contemporary art. It is a pictorial journey, documenting, with total candour, Goldin’s ‘extended family’ of Bohemian friends, drug addicts, transvestites, clubbers and battered lovers.