Nan Goldin I'll Be Your Mirror Documentary Part Four

I put a WARNING on this if you aren't aware of her work, Nan has featured in photography books such as 'Vile Bodies' which the title basically explains itself. There are images and discussions of drug use, nudity, extreme illness and at times upsetting images of people who have passed away.

Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born, 1953, Washington, D.C.) is an American photographer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin

Some critics have accused her of making heroin-use appear glamorous, and of pioneering a grunge style that later became popularized by youth fashion magazines such as The Face and I-D. However, in a 2002 interview with The Observer, Goldin herself called the use of "heroin chic" to sell clothes and perfumes "reprehensible and evil.

Anyone who already knows about the work of Nan Goldin will know that she is far from glamorizing, and that her work is as near to complete truth as art and explorations in art can get.

In a lot of ways Nan is saying that the people that were around her were just living their lives, like everyone else, and had experiences like everyone else apart from or until the appearance of what later became known as Hiv and Aids that changed each of their lives irreparably.

She chose to photograph her friends following the suicide of her sibling with the belief that she could somehow keep the people around her alive and present within photography, but her work also explores the gaps which photography cannot fill.

I think Goldins work can be difficult to understand which is why she has been perhaps accused of glamorizing, when in truth her work is simply and unashamedly presented which is what makes Nan Goldin the photographer she is.......

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[thephantomofthetube]

@enballade

Eartha Kitt 

[enballade]

Whose version of "All by myself" is that please? Anyone?

[GitaTurtle]

Thank you for uploaden the story of her life. I have just seen her excibition in Rotterdam,The Netherlands and I am impressed by her and her fotography.

[emiili23]

NAN, NAN, NAN ♥