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Nan Goldin (Washington, D.C., 1953) began taking photographs at the age of 15. Deeply affected by her sister’s suicide in 1963, she began a body of work—both in technique and subject matter—that remains closely tied to the family photo album by photographing her loved ones. In 1978, she moved to New York and, photographing the nightlife scene as it reveled and indulged in every excess, documented what she called “her extended family”; these photographs became the subject of her slide shows and her first book, *The Ballad of Sexual Dependency*. This deeply moving work made her the first female photographer to turn intimate details of her personal life into a public artistic work, inspiring a new generation of artists. A stint in rehab in 1989 marked a turning point in her life. She rediscovered daylight and reconnected with the nature of her childhood. In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she lived until 1994. There, she undertook numerous artistic collaborations, notably with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki for *Tokyo Love* and her longtime American friend David Armstrong for *Double Life*, both of which resulted in publications in 1994. Since the 1990s, her work has gained international recognition, and major exhibitions have followed one after another; the most recent was a retrospective at MoMA in 2017.
Aperture
148 pages
25.4 × 22.61 cm
ISBN 9781597112086
Nan Goldin (Washington, D.C., 1953) began taking photographs at the age of 15. Deeply affected by her sister’s suicide in 1963, she began a body of work—both in technique and subject matter—that remains closely tied to the family photo album by photographing her loved ones. In 1978, she moved to New York and, photographing the nightlife scene as it reveled and indulged in every excess, documented what she called “her extended family”; these photographs became the subject of her slide shows and her first book, *The Ballad of Sexual Dependency*. This deeply moving work made her the first female photographer to turn intimate details of her personal life into a public artistic work, inspiring a new generation of artists. A stint in rehab in 1989 marked a turning point in her life. She rediscovered daylight and reconnected with the nature of her childhood. In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she lived until 1994. There, she undertook numerous artistic collaborations, notably with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki for *Tokyo Love* and her longtime American friend David Armstrong for *Double Life*, both of which resulted in publications in 1994. Since the 1990s, her work has gained international recognition, and major exhibitions have followed one after another; the most recent was a retrospective at MoMA in 2017.
Aperture
148 pages
25.4 × 22.61 cm
ISBN 9781597112086
