Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, ClampArt, Boys of Summer, June 5–September 6, 2003 (another example exhibited)
Moscow, Multimedia Art Museum, Nan Goldin, March 23–May 14, 2006 (another example exhibited)
São Paulo, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, September 25–December 12, 2010, no. 6, p. 250 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Walter Keller and Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Nan Goldin and David Armstrong: Double Life, New York, 1994, p. 63 (another example illustrated)
Martha Kreisel, American Women Photographers: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, Westport, 1999, pp. 63, 126
“Art Guide”, The New York Times, August 29, 2003
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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