Nan Goldin - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • Exhibited

    A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1 September - 18 November 2007; Center for the Arts-Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 20 December 2007 - 23 February 2008; and Thomas J. WalshArt Gallery, Fairfield University, Connecticut, 19 September - 7 December 2008

  • 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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Roommate in her Chair, Boston

1972
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (47.6 x 32.4 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/18 in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $5,000

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs
vhallett@phillips.com
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Photographs

2 October 2012
New York