Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is an American photographer known for her deeply personal and candid portraiture. Goldin’s images act as a visual autobiography documenting herself and those closest to her, especially in the LGBTQ community. Her opus The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980–1986) is a slideshow of snapshots set to music that chronicled her life within the subcultures of New York during the 1980s. “The slideshow is really my medium. I wanted to make films. That was always the ambition,” Goldin has said. The Ballad was first exhibited at the 1985 Whitney Biennial, and was made into a photobook the following year. Born Nancy Goldin on September 12, 1953 in Washington, D.C., the artist began taking photographs as a teenager. Influenced by the fashion photography of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin she saw in magazines, an instructor later introduced her to the work of Diane Arbus, Larry Clark, and August Sander. Goldin’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others. She currently lives and works between New York, NY, and London, United Kingdom.

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