Nan Goldin is an american photographer that had for many years the drugs and alcohol as a toll for her work. Her first exhibition was in 1973 and was based on her photographic journeys among the gay and transsexual communities. Her work is focus on the extended family consisting of friends and lovers - the people who surround her, sharing the same pleasures and pains. It is the razor's edge: a clandestine world of hard lives, drug abuse, love, sex, death, violence and omnipresence of death. Goldin's photographs are not deliberate, but rather like snapshots from a family album and it is this realism and unpretentious style that makes her photographic journal a faithful record of her life. Nan Goldin made a series of self-portraits showing her experiences at the clinic that she was at the time (1988).
"My work changes as I change. I feel an artist's work has to change, otherwise you become a replication of yourself." - Nan Goldin
"My work changes as I change. I feel an artist's work has to change, otherwise you become a replication of yourself." - Nan Goldin
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/may/22/photography.art
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=88
"The Hasselblad Award 2007 - Nan Goldin"
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