Nan Goldin was born in Washington in 1953.
She's an artist obsessed with taking control of her own personal history, reflecting her life through the themes such as passionate loves, tragic losses –her sister’s early suicide, drug addiction, all this have a powerful impact on her images.
Among Goldin's greatest strengths is her use of color as a catalyst for amplifying the emotional tenor of the moment. In one of her better-known images, Nan and Brian in Bed, NYC, 1983, the scene is suffused with a crepuscular orange glow that probably captures the lugubrious mood of a dying relationship. Brian, her lover at the time, sits naked on the edge of the bed, smoking a cigarette; Goldin lies behind him, her face an ambivalent mixture of affection, vulnerability and weariness. The relationship ended in a storm of abusive violence.
She's an artist obsessed with taking control of her own personal history, reflecting her life through the themes such as passionate loves, tragic losses –her sister’s early suicide, drug addiction, all this have a powerful impact on her images.
Among Goldin's greatest strengths is her use of color as a catalyst for amplifying the emotional tenor of the moment. In one of her better-known images, Nan and Brian in Bed, NYC, 1983, the scene is suffused with a crepuscular orange glow that probably captures the lugubrious mood of a dying relationship. Brian, her lover at the time, sits naked on the edge of the bed, smoking a cigarette; Goldin lies behind him, her face an ambivalent mixture of affection, vulnerability and weariness. The relationship ended in a storm of abusive violence.
Goldin's life did not seem to change to better and it seem to me as she substituted her family, which she left when she was 13 years old, for the relationships involved with drugs, sex and violence.
No doubts Goldin is one of the well known artists photographers. Still it makes me question the seriousness of her work and the reall commitment to produce meaningful stories under drug addiction. Was there an attempt to communicate something or coincidencal snapshooting as she in the end stated her self:My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic...
That was just a thought, personally I see her work extraordinary, effective and powerful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin
http://aclothoverabirdcage.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-by-nan-goldin/
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