Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin started doing photography at the age of 15. She succeeded in taking photographs of herself without limits, fear and shame. Through her photographs, we can see the whole journey of Nan Golding and the path that she chose with her friends. In her interview she said that she wanted to show the “real” world, the world that she was a part of, where people partied all the time abusing drugs and alcohol, loving and living…and finally dying. Most of her friends didn’t survive 90s but Nan Goldin managed to cheat the fate once again, going through several rehabs of drug and alcohol addiction…death was coming closer but she survived. 

This photo appeared on the cover of the book "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" and became the quintessence of poetic cycle. She successfully portrayed the essence of an intimate relationship and the eternal dialectic of the sexes. According to Nan Goldin, there’s a certain distance that always present in intimacy. This book also introduced Nan Goldin as a powerful figure onto the art Scene.

--------------------------------

Tagliaventi, A., Leonelli, L., Mauro, A., Zanot, F., Curti, D. (2009) Foto: Box. Translated by Jimena Bargados, Catriona Cappleman, Clare Costa, Grace Crerar-Bromlow and Luisa Nitrato Izzo. Reprint, London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2009.  

Klein, W. (2000) Nan Goldin. From Contacts Vol. 2, Portraits of Contemporary Photographers. Part 1 availiable at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3sihEuiEk (Accessed: 8 March 2012). Part 2 availiable at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=PL&hl=pl&v=L9VWSCuKM1Y (Accessed 8 March 2012). 

Image: 

Goldin, N. (1983). Nan and Brian in Bed [Online]. Available at: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7532&page_number=11&template_id=1&sort_order=1 (Accessed: 1 April 2012).