 Nan one month after being battered, 1984 Goldin’s Years By Lisa Liebmann, ArtForum, October, 2002 Nan Goldin is more than a good or significant photographer, more than a widely celebrated one. She has over the past couple of decades become nothing less than a cultural force majeure–a “monstre,” in the sense of sacre, as she was described in Connaissance des arts last fall when her current traveling retrospective opene… NAN GOLDIN: “(Nan) Goldin’s Years” (2002)  Excerpt from, Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, University of Mexico Press, 2003 By Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble The work of the American artist Nan Goldin, born in 1953, has often been cited as offering an authentic document of life in the bohemian cultures of Boston and New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Goldin is understood to be a member of the community she photographs rather than an apparently objective outside… NAN GOLDIN: “Bohemian Ballads” (2003)  By Nan Goldin, ArtForum, January, 1995 In 1992, the editors of the Japanese Magazine Deja-Vu invited me to Tokyo to meet Nobuyoshi Araki. I’d already heard about this wild man of Japanese photography and of his diaristic, intensely sexual work. Araki had procured a copy of my Ballad of Sexual Dependency, though it’s unavailable in Japan due to stringent censorship laws. I was astounded to find a man on the other side of the plane… INTERVIEW: “Naked City: An Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki by Nan Goldin” (1995)  This program features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin̵… ASX.TV: Nan Goldin – “‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’ Whitney Mid-Career Museum Retrospective” (1996) |