Nan Goldin

David on My Pink Sofa, Bowery, NYC, 1983
Cibachrome, 51 x 61 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
1998-006-006

b. 1953 (Washington, US), lives and works in New York, US
It was in the bars of Boston that Nan Goldin began work on The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In this major project she photographed herself and her friends – directly, intimately, close up. The result is a portrayal of sexuality, relationships, power, and identity that is at once tender and hard-hitting. For a long time she photographed without natural light, using harsh, even blinding flashlight.