Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin
Nan Goldin describes her photographs as a 'visual diary'. She has stated: 'These are my friends, these are my family, this is myself. There is no separation between me and what I photograph.' The self-portrait Nan one month after being battered was taken to prevent Goldin from forgetting the damage caused by her boyfriend's violence. She applies the same frankness to the lives of her close friends. Goldin is attracted to the glamour of the world of drag-queens and transvestites. In Jimmy Paulette and Taboo! Undressing, NYC 1991, two men are caught in the midst of their gender transformation. Characteristically, this moment of exposure is presented with candour and empathy.
"It’s an interesting part of her work because her work is so much about her life and the people that surround her and it’s easy to see her work as being something voyeuristic. Why I think ‘Nan…..battered’ is quite an interesting turn in her work is because literally she turns the camera upon herself and is voyeuristic with herself in her own crisis as she is with other people in theirs. And she used that photograph in that situation to look at herself, not in a mirror but as a document so that you can see it and then move on from it and it was only looking at those photographs of herself that enabled her to see how bad her situation was and then to sort of move on."
Sam Taylor- Wood on Nan Goldin
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/goldin_nan.php
http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=128&im=1
http://oseculoprodigioso.blogspot.com/2007/01/goldin-nan-fotografia.html
Diane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin
Nan Goldin describes her photographs as a 'visual diary'. She has stated: 'These are my friends, these are my family, this is myself. There is no separation between me and what I photograph.' The self-portrait Nan one month after being battered was taken to prevent Goldin from forgetting the damage caused by her boyfriend's violence. She applies the same frankness to the lives of her close friends. Goldin is attracted to the glamour of the world of drag-queens and transvestites. In Jimmy Paulette and Taboo! Undressing, NYC 1991, two men are caught in the midst of their gender transformation. Characteristically, this moment of exposure is presented with candour and empathy.
"It’s an interesting part of her work because her work is so much about her life and the people that surround her and it’s easy to see her work as being something voyeuristic. Why I think ‘Nan…..battered’ is quite an interesting turn in her work is because literally she turns the camera upon herself and is voyeuristic with herself in her own crisis as she is with other people in theirs. And she used that photograph in that situation to look at herself, not in a mirror but as a document so that you can see it and then move on from it and it was only looking at those photographs of herself that enabled her to see how bad her situation was and then to sort of move on."
Sam Taylor- Wood on Nan Goldin
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/goldin_nan.php
http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=128&im=1
http://oseculoprodigioso.blogspot.com/2007/01/goldin-nan-fotografia.html
Diane
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