09.10.09

Nan Goldin Snapshot Profile

Name: Nan Goldin

Born: Washington, D.C in 1953

Areas of Expertises: Fine art, Documentary

The Facts:
Nan Goldin grew up in a upper-middle-class Jewish family. After her sister committed suicide aged 19, Goldin enrolled at the Satya Community School in Boston. It was where a teacher first introduced Goldin to photography in 1968. Her first solo show was held in Boston in 1973 and was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transsexual communities. This was the beginning of a lifetime obsession of portraying images of love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality. She graduated from Tufts University in 1978, where she had worked mostly with CIBA chrome prints and moved to New York City. The Pompidou Centre, Paris, held a major retrospective of her work in 2002. She currently lives in Paris and London.

Books:
The Ballard of Sexual Dependency (1986)
Cookie Mueller: Photographs (1991)
The Other Side (1993)
Vakat (1993)
Desire by Numbers (1994)
A double life (1994)
Tokyo Love: Spring Fever (1994)
The Golden Years (1995)
I’ll Be Your Mirror (1996)
Love Streams (1997)
Emotions and Relations (1998)
Ten Years After: Naples 1986-1996 (1998)
Couples and Loneliness (1998)
Portfolio (1999)
Nan Goldin: Recent Photographs (1999)
Nan Goldin: 55 (2001)
Memory Lost (2001)
Uberleben Im Alltag: 10 Fotograffinnen Fur Die Pressefreiheit (2002)
Devils Playground (2003)
El Patio Del Diablo (2004)
Soeurs, Saintes Et Sibylles (2005)
So the Story Goes (2006)
Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin (2009)
 

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  1. Went and saw Nan Goldings exhibition in Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. It was the most amazing body of work. Tragedy and beauty combined.

    Comment made by: antcq
    24.11.09 22:09:06


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