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  • Literature

    Aperture, Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs, cover and p. 87; Aperture, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, back cover and p. 129; Korinsha Press, Nan Goldin: Couples and Loneliness, p. 18; Sussman and Armstrong, Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror, New York, p. 127

  • Artist Biography

    Nan Goldin

    American • 1953

    American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.

    The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.

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The Hug, New York City

1980
Dye destruction print.
23 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (59.7 x 39.1 cm).
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/25 in ink on the verso.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $17,500

Photographs

9 April 2011
New York