Nan GoldinGender & Identity

Sam Yoon

AWQ3MI

Table of contents• Biography

• Genre/style

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• Goldin then moved to New York city where in 1978 she had been introduced to a new life that had developed into her most famous work “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

• Her collection is Whitney museum of American Art in New York• Her ballad was shown in Berlin and Edinburgh film festivals• She had lived a life of drug and alcohol abuse• Her group of friends began to windle down because of the effect of AIDS. Her friends

had become a replacement for her family

BiographyBorn sept.12 1953 in Washington D.CHad a rougher teenage life. She had moved around from foster homes because she had decided to leave home. She then enrolled into Satya community schoolThis is where her first introduction of photography

Genre/Style• Gender Identity/documentary• She had presented her photography in clubs as a 45 min.

slideshow• Also published as a book• Her work was to preserve her memories• Her group of friends was her biggest influence on her work• Her work has a look of nostalgia and familiarity• Work has been as voyeuristic

Gotscho kissing gilles paris1993

Cibachrome print30 x 40 in

Heart shaped bruise1980 Cibachrome print

67.9 100.3cm

Nan and Brian in bed NYC 1983

Cookie at vitorrio’s casket nyc September 16 1989

Simon and Jessika Making love, Paris 2001

Siobhan with a cigarette, Berlin 1994

Quote• AIDS changed everything. The people I feel

knew me the best, who understood me, the people who carried my history, the people I grew up with and I was planning to get old with are gone… I don’t believe photography stops time…I still believe pictures can preserve life rather than kill life. The pictures in the Ballad haven’t changed. But Cookie is dead, Kenny is dead, Mark is dead, Max is dead, Vittorio is dead. So for me, the book is now a volume of loss, while still a ballad of love

Bibliography• “Nan Goldin” accessed January 22 2011 http://www.brain-

juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=88

• “Nan Goldin Biography” accesed january 22 2011http://www.biography.com/people/nan-goldin-4056

• Hirsch, Rober, Seizing the light ( McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages 1999)

• “Nan Goldin” http://www.artfact.com/artist/goldin-nan-mg1lvydzr0