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Nan Goldin

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Nancy Goldin is an American photographer and activist born in Washington, D.C. in 1953 who documents intimate relationships and bohemian LGBT subcultures in a snapshot style, including the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Her best-known work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, first shown as a slideshow and later published as a monograph in 1986, portrays her chosen family within post-punk and gay subcultures. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2007 and is also a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N., which campaigns against the opioid epidemic.

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    Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemian LGBTQ subcultural communities, especially dealing with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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    Nancy Goldin (born 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemian LGBTQ subcultural communities, especially dealing w
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