Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin, born in 1953 in Washington, D.C., lives and works in New York, Berlin, and Paris. One of the most important and influential artists of her generation, Goldin began documenting various subcultures and marginalised communities, particularly those that existed outside mainstream society, in the 1970s, capturing their lives with raw intimacy and honesty. Covering LGBTQ+ communities and how they dealt with the devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, bohemian and underground art scenes, punk and post-punk subcultures, sex workers and drag performers, and people affected by addiction, her snapshot-style images reject voyeurism in favor of emotional immediacy, offering a deeply humanizing perspective on these communities, many of whom are her friends and “chosen family”. Thus, most of Nan Goldin's career has also been defined by activism, calling attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, leading protests against the ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S., and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestine.
Nan Goldin Editions
Joey in my mirror
2002
From Double Exposure
a: Joey in my mirror, Berlin 1992
b: Joey in my mirror, NYC 1999
Two Cibachromes, 51 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in) each. Edition of 45, signed on work a.
"My work derives from the snapshot. It is the form of photography that most closely stands for love." – Nan Goldin
Every one of Goldin's photographs is like a window opening on a labyrinthine body of stories – some happy, some tragic. Her work is documentary in the best sense: it hews close to the world she knows, but also indulges in the self-dramatization and pathos that together constitute a post-modern version of Romanticism. Nan Goldin's photographs have become touchstones of the contemporary visual imagination, avidly collected all over the world and assimilated into the mainstream.
Alf and Fritz / Volcano
1998
From Sequences
a: Alf Bold Dead, August 18, 1993;
b: Fritz Five Days Old, August 18, 1993;
c: Stromboli at Dawn.
Set of three Ilfochrome prints. Each print 40 x 50 cm (15¾ x19¾ in), set signed on image b. Edition of 60 + X.
Nan Goldin on this edition: "On August 18, 1993 I spent the day by the bedside of my best friend Alf Bold listening to his death-rattle. I left the hospital briefly to meet my friend Hans Werner's newborn son, Fritz. When I returned to the hospital an hour later Alf had died."
Set EUR 3,300
