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Since the 1980s, Goldin has consistently created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time. It also presents over three hundred prints of photographs taken since the 1970s, with a particular attention towards her recent works. Titled “ I’ll Be Your Mirror“, it brought together powerful images expressing the range of joys and sorrows that her work had reflected up to then. Goldin wants to remember her personal life in every detail; people encountered, experiences shared, emotions felt, relationships that endure over time. Beautifully bound in red cloth, it was issued in a specially made box together with an original print entitled, "Guido floating, Levanzo, Sicily, 1999.

Since the mid-1990s, Goldin’s images have become more tender and more infused with light, more about connection than alienation. In “First Love”, we see different moments of desire and tenderness in the life of her young nephew and his first lover ( Simon and Jessica on the Metro, Paris, 2001; Simon and Jessica Kissing in my Shower, Paris, 2001; etc. At the same time, her art visualizes what characterizes personal memory and distinguishes it from the collective – the way we have of ‘filing away’ life in idiosyncratic fashion, like a fluid and changing universe of traces and details, and without objective relationships of scale among the various memories.And so while still a teenager, she began to shoot ‘snapshots’, thousands of images, like most young people did during the 1970s and 1980s – before computers. Since the early 1970s, Goldin has taken numerous photographs of her friends and 'family', which form a unique corpus of work. In recent years, Goldin also has photographed magical landscapes like the intensely blue sea in a grotto in Capri, the Stromboli volcano steaming at dawn, ex-votos in Somma Vesuviana, or the smoking tar pits of Solfatara near Pozzuoli. Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back,Paris2001" by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. Goldin's life and friends became the focus of her work - a diary of friends and lovers in Europe and America, in the underground and gay scene.

At around the age of fifteen, Goldin began taking photographs with the intention of creating a visual diary of her everyday life. She became immersed in the intense climate of the East Village in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with its parties, music, film scene, drugs, and both heterosexual and homosexual sexual experiences.This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin’s inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading photographers. Gebraucht - Gut GU - Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - - The most significant book published to date on Nan Goldin (b.

This multimedia work is made up of more than seven hundred slides projected and accompanied by musical passages that serve as the narrative voice.The book and the print come in a specially made box together with an original Cibachrome print titled "Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back", also signed and numbered by Nan Goldin. Looking at all these lives, all these desires and moments of solitude induces in the viewer a sense of emotional overdose, something like looking at the details of every figure in a representation of hell in a Medieval Last Judgment. This new traveling exhibition, “Devil’s Playground”, began its tour at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2001 with subsequent venues at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Museu Serralves, Porto. However, in the postmodern era of the society of spectacle, it increasingly has become a technique for inventing a parallel reality, a fiction, or a simulacrum.

Without reading about the book beforehand and finding information about what the series of photographs included in this book are, I jumped right into viewing. The storm comes with personal family pictures, which at first looked like a usual family album pictures… but that was exactly the problem (? Looking through a camera placed in people’s houses and rooms to observe the usual moments of their life. Instead she is a modern photographer, someone who still believes in the capacity of the photographic image to represent the truth, to indicate and make a memorial from authentic experiences. This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin's inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today's leading photographers.After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts, Goldin moved to New York in 1978, drawn by the myth of the artist’s life in the big city.