Thursday 15 April 2010

Nan Goldin




Nan goldin is an American fine art and documentary photographer who
Is best known for her photographic documentrys of gay and transsexual images
Her photographs are often of drug culture,aids,violence
Goldins work is mostly shown in slideshows and her shows can consist of 800 images that of mostly sexual nature.
The main themes of her early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot with available light. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens, sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. The images are viewed like a private journal made public.Some critics have accused her of making heroin-use appear glamorous, and of pioneering a grunge style that later became popularized by youth fashion magazines such as The Face and I-D. However, in a 2002 interview with The Observer, Goldin herself called the use of "heroin chic" to sell clothes and perfumes "reprehensible and evil.

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