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Nan Goldin
Gender & Identity
Sam Yoon
AWQ3MI
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Biography
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Biography
Born sept.12 1953 in Washington D.C
Had a rougher teenage life. She had moved around
from foster homes because she had decided to
leave home.
She then enrolled into Satya community school
This is where her first introduction of photography
• Goldin then moved to New York city where in 1978 she had been introduced
to a new life that had developed into her most famous work “The Ballad of
Sexual Dependency
• Her collection is Whitney museum of American Art in New York
• Her ballad was shown in Berlin and Edinburgh film festivals
• She had lived a life of drug and alcohol abuse
• Her group of friends began to windle down because of the effect of AIDS. Her
friends had become a replacement for her family
Genre/Style
• Gender Identity/documentary
• She had presented her photography in clubs as a 45 min.
slideshow
• Also published as a book
• Her work was to preserve her memories
• Her group of friends was her biggest influence on her work
• Her work has a look of nostalgia and familiarity
• Work has been as voyeuristic
Gotscho kissing gilles paris
1993
Cibachrome print
30 x 40 in
Heart shaped bruise
1980 Cibachrome print
67.9 100.3cm
Nan and Brian in bed NYC 1983
Cookie at vitorrio’s casket nyc September 16
1989
Simon and Jessika Making love, Paris 2001
Siobhan with a cigarette,
Berlin 1994
Quote
• AIDS changed everything. The people I feel
knew me the best, who understood me, the
people who carried my history, the people I
grew up with and I was planning to get old
with are gone… I don’t believe photography
stops time…I still believe pictures can
preserve life rather than kill life. The pictures
in the Ballad haven’t changed. But Cookie is
dead, Kenny is dead, Mark is dead, Max is
dead, Vittorio is dead. So for me, the book is
now a volume of loss, while still a ballad of
love
Bibliography
• “Nan Goldin” accessed January 22 2011 http://www.brainjuice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=88
• “Nan Goldin Biography” accesed january 22
2011http://www.biography.com/people/nan-goldin-4056
• Hirsch, Rober, Seizing the light ( McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social
Sciences/Languages 1999)
• “Nan Goldin” http://www.artfact.com/artist/goldin-nan-mg1lvydzr0