Nan Goldin Livres

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin's seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993. There will be a revised introduction by Goldin, and for the first time the voices of those whose stories are represented. Now being released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility. The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early eighties, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the nineties, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin and Bangkok, photographing their public personas while showing their real lives backstage. Goldin's newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she's loved, many of whom she's lost, over the last four decades. The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria... - Nan Goldin

This celebrated American photographer made a career out of documenting the eccentric and often tragic lives of homosexuals, transsexuals and other gender-benders -- a series of close knit societies whose loyalty and generosity redefine the notion of family.

Set in a hauntingly atmospheric world, the narrative explores the struggles of its characters against a backdrop of temptation and moral conflict. The story weaves together themes of redemption and the battle between good and evil, as individuals confront their darkest fears and desires. With richly developed characters and intricate plot twists, it delves into the complexities of human nature, making readers question the true nature of sin and salvation.

On a trip to Naples, Goldin made portraits of the city and acquaintances she made during her stay. Ten years later, after the success of her mid-life retrospective, I'll Be Your Mirror, she went back and was inspired to make new pictures. The story of these two visits is told in this mixture of intimate and affectionate portraits and studies of the landscapes and architecture.

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Nan Goldin - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2007 has been awarded to Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin is one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct esthetics of snapshot photography she has been documenting her own life and that of her friends for more than 30 years. Her intimate and formally beautiful photographs focus on the urban scene in New York and Europe in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a period dramatically marked by HIV and AIDS. Her use of photography as a memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation, and her use of the slide show as a means of presenting her work, resonates in the work of photographers of recent generations.

"Eden and After" is a new collection of intimate photographs by renowned photographer Nan Goldin, showcasing the energy and emotion of childhood. Over her 30-year career, Goldin has captured personal stories and the essence of relationships, friendships, and identity, accompanied by an introduction from her friend, Guido Costa.

In her latest book, Diving for Pearls, Nan Goldin presents us with almost exclusively new, unpublished work. We are invited to contemplate the sense of magic and surprising abstractness exuding from unintentional photographic mistakes made with an analogue camera, such as double and triple exposures, or clip marks on the negatives. Following a loose narrative, we witness Goldin’s visceral intuitive style, driven by emotions reaching deep down in all of us. The book includes a new muse in Venice, cityscapes and animals, self-portraits, Venitian interiors, mirrors and gravestones. A true token of Goldin’s lifelong dedication to her friends is deeply portrayed by her pairing of their portraits with paintings of saints that she took in museums. The striking similarities between the contemporary and the archetypical verve of past beauty exert an intense dynamic on the viewer. Diving for Pearls was conceived as an independent artist book on the occasion of Goldin’s exhibition at Hannover’s Kestner Gesellschaft.