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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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Birth Year
1953 1
Active From Year
1973 1
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Gender
Female 1
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Photography, Art Forms
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United States

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United States

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1. Wikipedia: Nan Goldin
  • Gender reference
    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.
  • Life and work
    Goldin's first solo show, held in Boston in 1973, was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transgender communities
  • Lead sentence
    Nancy Goldin (born 1953) is an American photographer and activist.
  • In Group: Documentary Photographers, Article body
    Goldin's insistence on intimacy between artist and subject is an attempt to relegitimize the codes and conventions of social documentary, presumably by ridding them of their problematic enmeshment with the histories of social surveillance and coercion, says Kotz. [Her] insider status does nothing to alter the way her pictures convert her audience into voyeurs.
  • Practices: Photography, lead paragraph
    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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Wikidata: Nan Goldin
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