Nan Goldin

“This book is about beauty. And about my love for my friends”.

This are the words that Nan Goldin used to describe her book “The other side” published in October 1992. The title is inspired by a Club in Boston called The Other Side where she used to hang out with her friends. American artist Nan Goldin was born in Washington DC in 1953 and grow up in Boston, Massachuttes. From the first time she saw a drag queen she tought that she was the most gorgeous creauture she had never seen. Since then she has been constantly photographing the transexual and gay world. The artist was attracted by the freedom of these people beliving them as truly revolutionary and the real winners of the battles of sexes in society. Goldin’s style can be described as snapshots in its rawness and truth. She mostly photographs her subjects in enclosed spaces as bedrooms, bathrooms or night clubs.

The images usually figure intimate life moments such as sexual acts, family shots and portraits recording the world around her. I was impressed by the sponteneaty of her work and the passion and effort she put into her projects. She is shouting without any fear about the world she admires.

Bibliography:

·Nan Goldin, Guido Costa (Author), London: Phaidon 2001

·The ballad of sexual dependency, Nan Goldin, NY Aperture 1989

·The other side, Nan Goldin, David Amstrong, Walter Keller. Artist-in-residence-programme Berlin 1993

· artinfo.com/news/story/13609/nan-goldin/