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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

NAN GOLDIN’S Birthday - (70)

 

Nan Goldin (born 12 September 1953)


Born on this day seventy years ago: fierce American photographer Nan Goldin (née Nancy Goldin, 12 September 1953). Think of her as the bruised, worldly-wise Marianne Faithfull of modern art (or as Variety puts it, “the postpunk Diane Arbus”). I revere Goldin’s hard-edged and unflinching confessional photography and worshipfully attend every retrospective in London. Goldin’s life and work ricochets between London, Berlin and Paris but she will always be synonymous with 70s and 80s New York bohemia.  Laura Poitras’ lacerating Oscar-nominated 2022 documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed powerfully weaves together Goldin’s art, activism and history of personal trauma and is compulsory viewing. 




Pictured: Self-Portrait in the Blue Mirror, Berlin (1991).

the link above to the article on All The Beauty and The Bloodshed which I watched recently (brilliant and yet distressing too) is from a blog I enjoy visiting by Graham Russell


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