| Dates: | 1953, 12 September - | | Born: | US, DC, Washington | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Female |
American photographer whose 1983 book ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency‘ was a shocking revelation of her social circle and at the same time she received critical acclaim because of the frank approach.Preparing biographies
Nan Goldin’s book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was 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. The images are particularly powerful because of the photographer's involvement with her subjects over a 20 year period.
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Date last updated: 11 Nov 2011.
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Biography provided by Focal Press
Goldin’s vérité-style slide and music diary, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (published as a book in 1986), used 700–800 images and popular songs to spin a constantly evolving tale of abuse, drugs, and sex. Goldin’s camera is part of her intimate relationships, recording her subjective internal feeling about what is going on between Goldin and her subjects. Her images are a post-modern morality tale that chronicles the heyday and collapse of a nihilistic lifestyle. Her work embodies the shift in photographic practice from the single flawless black and white print to casually composed collections of color snapshots that emphasize autobiography, sexuality, and outsider culture.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
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Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Goldin, N., 1986, The Ballard of Sexual Dependency, (Aperture) isbn-13: 978-0893812362 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1991, Cookie Mueller, (New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery) [Exhibition catalogue.] [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1993, The Other Side, (Scalo Publishers) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1993, Vakat, (Cologne: Walther Konig) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1994, A double life, (Zurich: Scalo) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1994, Desire by Numbers, (San Francisco: Artspace) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1994, Tokyo Love, (Tokyo: Hon don do) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1995, The Golden Years, (Paris: Yvon Lambert) [Exhibition catalogue.] [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1997, Love Streams, (Paris: Yvon Lambert) [Exhibition catalogue.] [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1998, Couples and Loneliness, (Tokyo:Korinsha Press) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1998, Emotions and Relations, (Cologne: Taschen) [Exhibition catalogue.] [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1998, Ten Years After: Naples 1986-1996, (Scalo) isbn-13: 978-3931141790 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 1999, Nan Goldin: Recent Photographs, (Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum) [Δ]
Goldin, N., 2001, Nan Goldin. 55, (London: Phaidon) isbn-13: 978-0714840734 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 2003, Devils Playground, (London: Phaidon Press) isbn-13: 978-0714842233 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 2005, Soeurs, Saintes et Sibylles, (Editions du Regard) isbn-13: 978-2841051793 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 2007, The Beautiful Smile, (Steidl) isbn-13: 978-3865215390 [Δ]
Goldin, N., 2009, Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin, (Skira Rizzoli) isbn-13: 978-0847832552 [Δ]
Goldin, N. et al., 1996, I'll be Your Mirror, (New York: Scalo Publishers) [Δ]
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