NAN GOLDIN
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
"My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back." Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin is the impassioned historian of love in an age of fluid sexuality, glamour, beauty, violence and death. Recognised as one of the world's most compelling photographers, her work has had a lasting impact on film, design and fashion as well as the fine arts.
Goldin is best known for her photographs of people living marginal lifestyles, taken in cosmopolitan centres such as New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris. Working directly from personal experience, she captures moments that cumulatively tell stories of friendship, desire and their aftermath. Her work traverses the spectrum of human relations from love to isolation, betrayal, loss and self-revelation. Emotionally charged, and shot in intensely saturated hues, these images provide a slice of contemporary history, recounted through the lives of those close to her and characterised by an unposed and private take on her subjects.
A prolific photographer, Goldin edits her images into differing narrative sequences that focus both on the individual and on wider thematic issues.
The human figure has remained at the core of Goldin's photography, captured with grit, exuberance, sensuality, tenderness and pathos. Collectively, her works provide a profoundly humanistic take on sexuality and capture the spirit of our times.
