Dimensions: 76 x 101,5 cm
Signed and numbered on the reverse: 'Nan Goldin A. P. I'
dated and described on the reverse: 'Joey in the tube. Sag Harbor. 2000'
on the reverse an author's dedication to a friend dated 'February 04'
ed. AP I
Biography
Nan Goldin began photographing in 1968, at the age of 15. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1973 in Boston - the artist showed photographs of her visits to gay and transgender communities, to which she was introduced by friend David Armstrong. Her first fascination with the colorful LGBTQ community became the most important motif of her work, which she replicated over the following years. After graduation, she moved to New York. There she began documenting the post punk and new wave music scene, the post-stonewall subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the city's nightlife. The main themes of her early works are love, daily life, sexuality, and gender. She also often documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms, drag queens, sexual relations, human obsessions and addictions. The photographs often depict the private lives of those close to her. Post-1995 works cover a wide range of subject matter: from a collaborative book project with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, to New York City skylines, landscapes, people swimming in water, children, parenthood and family life. Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a slide show, and is often shown at film festivals.
