Nan goldin

Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1981) arrived in Triennale: a slideshow made of more than 700 shots, witnessing Goldin's research.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed forcefully posits multiple parallels between the world Nan Goldin grew up in and the one she fights in today.

Goldin, Nan: Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston

Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980

nan goldin - bruce bleaching his eyebrows

Back in 1972, Nan Goldin was walking through downtown Boston when she came upon three trans women that would become her entrée into another world. As Goldin watched Ivy, Naomi,…

Naomi Fry on Laura Poitras’s documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” on the photographer Nan Goldin and on the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.

Nan Goldin, Siobhan Sleeping with Cat, 1993, printed 1994. Silver dye bleach print (Ilfochrome), sheet: 19 15/16 × 24 in. (50.6 × 61 cm) Image: 15 11/16 × 23 7/16 in. (39.8 × 59.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner 2006.224.6. © Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin, The Hug, 1980

Nan Goldin Self Portrait in the Mirror at the Lodge, Belmont, MA | LACMA Collections

The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was a cult East Village venue frequented by the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nan Goldin, John Waters, Cookie Mueller, and Fran Lebowitz

Nan Goldin, Twisting at my birthday party, New York City 1980, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Aperture 2012)

Nan Goldin, "Variety" booth, NYC, 1983. Silver dye bleach print, sheet: 40 × 29 5/16 in. (101.6 × 74.5 cm) Image: 38 1/2 × 25 3/4 in. (97.8 × 65.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 99.154. © Nan Goldin

“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism.