The Devil's Playground

The Devil's Playground

Author: Nan Goldin

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2008-03-26

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780714847580

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The most significant book to date on this influential contemporary photographer.


Ballads

Ballads

Author: Michael Famighetti

Publisher: Aperture

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781597114844

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Published by Aperture in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, with its fresh, unflinching portrayal of the photographer's circle of friends, dramatically changed the course of photography. Decades on, the series retains its searing power, influencing new generations of artists. Goldin herself remains a bold, singular force in our culture. Recently, she has taken on the Sackler family, shining a light on its role in creating America's opioid crisis. Goldin's trenchant activism is a reminder of the artist's power to effect social change. The Ballads issue of Aperture magazine is organized around the themes contained within the original ballad--intimacy, friendship, community, love, sex, trauma, music--while also honoring the urgent role of the artist as a force for cultural and social change.


The Other Side

The Other Side

Author: Nan Goldin

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783958296138

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This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin's seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993. There will be a revised introduction by Goldin, and for the first time the voices of those whose stories are represented. Now being released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility. The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early eighties, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the nineties, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin and Bangkok, photographing their public personas while showing their real lives backstage. Goldin's newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she's loved, many of whom she's lost, over the last four decades. The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria... - Nan Goldin


Eden and After

Eden and After

Author: Nan Goldin

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2014-03-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714865775

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Eden and After is a new collection of photographs from one of the most influential photographers working today. For over 30 years, Nan Goldin has created intimate and compelling photographs that tell personal stories of relationships, friendships, and identity while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time. Here, Goldin presents photographs of children that capture the energy, emotion, and mystery of childhood. This beautifully produced book features 300 color illustrations and an introduction from Guido Costa, an art dealer and close friend of the artist.


Believing Is Seeing

Believing Is Seeing

Author: Errol Morris

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0143124250

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Academy Award–winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America’s most provocative observers.


The Beautiful Smile

The Beautiful Smile

Author: Nan Goldin

Publisher: Steidl Dap

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9783865215390

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The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2007 has been awarded to Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin is one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct esthetics of snapshot photography she has been documenting her own life and that of her friends for more than 30 years. Her intimate and formally beautiful photographs focus on the urban scene in New York and Europe in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a period dramatically marked by HIV and AIDS. Her use of photography as a memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation, and her use of the slide show as a means of presenting her work, resonates in the work of photographers of recent generations.


Crisis of the Real

Crisis of the Real

Author: Andy Grundberg

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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... His interpretations and critical views have helped shpae a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.


Desire by Numbers

Desire by Numbers

Author: Nan Goldin

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Desire by Numbers counterpoints Nan Goldin's photographs of teenage sex-workers in Southeast Asia Againt Klaus Kertess'short story about he failures of language, love, and desire. Photography as memory is played off against writing as memory. The verifiability of one medium becomes the illusion of another, as two characters argue about sex and end by fithing for the love of a man already dead.