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Nan Goldin
American photographer and activist
Nancy Goldin (born )[1] is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemianLGBT subcultural communities, especially dealing with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis of the s. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In the slideshow and monograph () Goldin portrayed her chosen "family", meanwhile documenting the post-punk and gay subcultures. She is a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) against the opioid epidemic.[2] She lives and works in New York City.[3][4]
Early life
[edit]Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., in [5] to middle-class Jewish parents, and grew up in the Boston suburb of Swampscott, moving to Lexington in her teens. Goldin's father worked in broadcasting and served as the chief economist for t
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Nan Goldin &#; Revolutionizing Photography Through Daring Intimacy
Influences and Subjects in Nan Goldin&#;s Work
At age 18, Goldin was living in Boston and soon became friends with a group of drag queens who spent their time at a bar called &#;The Other Side&#;. She started photographing them with the wish to memorialize them in all their extravagant glory. Loving their bravery in the process of creating new selves and basking in their otherness, she had no interest in taking pictures of them beneath their costumes and make-up. It was these people that they chose to be that she wanted to photograph: their chosen selves. The Other Side () has become one of Goldin&#;s most important bodies of work, celebrating her friends for bravely living out their most authentic selves.
In an interview with Thora Siemsen, Goldin touches upon the importance of friendship, on how friends were always more important to her than romantic relationships. When asked how she deals with friendsh
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Happy sextionde Birthday to Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin (born September 12, ) was born in Washington, D.C. As a teenager in Boston in the s, then in New York starting in the s, Nan Goldin has taken intensely anställda, spontaneous, sexuell, and transgressive photographs – documenting Boston’s transvestite and cross-dresser scene, the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the New York City’s vibrant, gay subculture of the late s and early s
Goldin’s work is most often presented in the form of a slideshow; her most famous, titled The Ballad of sexuell Dependency, being a 45 minute show in which pictures are displayed. The main themes of her early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot with available light. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens, sexuell acts, and the culture of obs