Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin, 2009

Nan Goldin (born September 12, 1953 in Washington, DC ) is an American photographer .

The subjects of her photographs are sex, drugs and violence, and death as well. The photographer grants a very personal insight into her life. Her pictures are characterized by a relentless directness that does not shy away from intimate moments. Her best-known work is the slide show The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980–1986). Goldin won the Hasselblad Photography Award in March 2007 .

Life

Nan Goldin was born in Washington, DC in 1953. After the suicide of her sister Barbara Holly, who was four years her senior, Nan Goldin left her parents' home at the age of 14 and moved in with friends. After starting out as an amateur photographer and exhibiting her pictures for the first time, Nan Goldin began studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1974 . After graduating, she went to New York in 1978 , where she still mainly lives and works today. Her artistic breakthrough was her slide show The Ballad of Sexual Dependency , created between 1980 and 1986 .

Invited by Alf Boldt (†), the then program manager of the Arsenal cinema , she traveled to Berlin for the first time in 1982. As a result, she came to West Berlin annually. In 1984 she photographed the poster motif for the Berlin Film Festival . Goldin made friends with Elke Kruse , Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Wolfgang Müller , members of the band Die Tödliche Doris . She photographed them both in West Berlin and at their appearances in The Kitchen in New York in 1984 and 1987 at MoMA in Paris. Sissi Farassat is one of her students .

Goldin captured her life and the lives and deaths of her friends on camera. She documented physical abuse, AIDS and the consequences of substance abuse. Critics accused her of making heroin chic with her intimate glimpses into the drug scene . Goldin himself also used drugs and was addicted to heroin for some time . She has lived mostly drug-free since 1988, but has had some relapses.

A picture of her installation Thanksgiving was confiscated in England on suspicion of child pornography. In 2009 she was curator of one of the world's largest photography festivals, the Rencontres d'Arles .

Protests against the Sackler family

Around 2014, Goldin developed drug addiction after the pain reliever Oxycontin , which she was prescribed after surgery. Large doses obtained illegally put her at risk of death. She has been an activist since her withdrawal . Starting in 2018, she initiated protests against donations from the Sackler family in several museums, including the Guggenheim in New York , the MET and the National Gallery in London, as their relatives, as owners of Purdue Pharma, are not only known as patrons , but also economically implicated in the opioid epidemic in the US . They are accused of "deliberately playing down" the dangers of the drug they sell.

Awards

In 2011, Nan Goldin received the Reminders Day Award as part of the “Reminders Day Aidsgala”. With her photographic work she has given AIDS an individual, non-voyeuristic and human face and thus made a significant contribution to removing taboos from the disease. In 2019 she accepted the Ruth Baumgarte Art Prize for her life's work. On the Power-100 list of Art Review magazine, Nan Goldin is listed as number 2 worldwide.

Exhibitions

bibliography

Web links

Commons : Nan Goldin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilton As: Nan Goldins's life in progress. In: www.newyorker.com. July 4, 2016, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kia Vahland: Profile: Nan Goldin. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. March 26, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ What is hanging with Elton John? . In: n-tv.de . September 26, 2007.
  4. ↑ Sebastian Spallek: Nan Goldin blames the patron family for their drug addiction. In: monopoly. Magazine for art and life. April 1, 2018, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 26/2019, p. 120 ff.
  6. ↑ Joanna Walters, Vanessa Thorpe: Nan Goldin threatens London gallery boycott over £ 1m gift from Sackler fund . In: The Observer . February 17, 2019, ISSN  0029-7712 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).
  7. ↑ "We live in dangerous times". In: taz.de. July 9, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/power-100-art-magazine-ranking-1.4680954
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Goldin, Nan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC