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Nancy Goldin (born 1953) [ 1 ] is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemian LGBT subcultural communities, especially dealing with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
Nan Goldin | MoMA. American, born 1953. “My work has been about. making a record of my life. that no one can revise.” Nan Goldin’s photographs are like pages of a diary, sharing at once the intimacy of ordinary connections, the isolation of abuse, and the joyful abandon of being with friends.
Jan 24, 2023 · Nan Goldin likes to say that photography saved her life. In turn, she strives to pass this salvation on to others—through both her art and her activism.
share tweet share. From an early age, a rebellious Nan Goldin sought to escape the stifling confines of conventional, suburban America, finding like-minded people with whom she could find ways of expressing themselves freely, and defy notions of normality.
Emerging from the artist’s own life and relationships, and including herself as a subject, Nan Goldin’s work has transformed the role of photography in contemporary art. Her photographs and moving-image works address essential themes of identity, love, sexuality, addiction, and mortality.
Sep 8, 2024 · Nan Goldin, American photographer noted for visual narratives detailing her own world of addictive and sexual activities. She is known for such photographic series as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981), The Family of Nan, 1990–92, and Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994.
Jun 11, 2016 · Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, 1980s, and beyond.
