Nan Goldin
photographer
Nancy Goldin is an American photographer and activist known for her intimate, snapshot-style documentation of the bohemian LGBT subcultures in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her work explores themes of love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality, often capturing the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis. She is a founding member of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), an advocacy group addressing the opioid epidemic. Goldin's practice involves both personal diaries and collaborative projects, with her most famous work being 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'.[1,2,3]
Themes
- LGBT subculture
- HIV/AIDS crisis
- domesticity
- sexuality
- opioid epidemic
Books
Works by Nan Goldin
- Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin 2009 · Skira Rizzoli · book · English ISBN 9780847832552 Compiles still photographs created for the 1983 film Variety.
- The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1986 · Aperture · book · English Initial publication of her famous slideshow.
Exhibitions
- 1989 Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing Artists Space, New York City group
Awards
- 2006 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres France
- 2007 Hasselblad Award Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2012 Edward MacDowell Medal MacDowell Colony


