Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror, October 3, 1996–November 9, 1997, pp. 73, 464 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 73)
Los Angeles, Matthew Marks Gallery, Nan Goldin: 1972-1977, September 11–October 9, 2021 (another example exhibited)
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, “Partying with John Waters in 1970s Provincetown,” Vice, November 20, 2016, online (another example illustrated)
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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