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Nancy Goldin
September 12, 1953 Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| Awards | Edward MacDowell Medal 2012 Hasselblad Award 2006 |
Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures. She lives and works in New York City.
Early life
Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1953 to middle-class Jewish parents, and grew up in the Boston suburb of Swampscott, moving to Lexington in her teens. Goldin's father worked in broadcasting and served as the chief economist for the Federal Communications Commission.
At 16 Goldin enrolled at the Satya Community School in Lincoln. A Satya staff member (existential psychologist Rollo May's daughter) introduced Goldin to the camera in 1969 when she was sixteen years old. Goldin found the camera as a useful political tool, to inform the public about important issues silenced in America. Her early influences included Andy Warhol's early films, Federico Fellini, Jack Smith, French and Italian Vogue, Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton.
Life and work
Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints. Her work from this period is associated with the Boston School of Photography.
Following graduation, Goldin moved to New York City. She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a slideshow, and has been shown at film festivals; her most famous being a 45-minute show in which 800 pictures are displayed. The main themes of her early pictures are love and gender. In the book Auto-Focus, her photographs are described as a way to "learn the stories and intimate details of those closest to her".
Goldin's work since 1995 has included a wide array of subject matter: collaborative book projects with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki; New York City skylines; uncanny landscapes (notably of people in water); her lover, Siobhan; and babies, parenthood and family life.
In 2000, her hand was injured and she currently retains less ability to turn it than in the past.
In 2006, her exhibition, Chasing a Ghost, opened in New York. It was the first installation by her to include moving pictures, a fully narrative score, and voiceover, and included the three-screen slide and video presentation Sisters, Saints, & Sybils. Her works are developing more and more into cinemaesque features, exemplifying her gravitation towards working with films.
After some time, her photos moved from portrayals of dangerous youthful abandonment to scenes of parenthood and family life in progressively worldwide settings. Goldin currently resides and works in New York, Paris, as well as London.
Fashion
Goldin has undertaken commercial fashion photography—for Australian label Scanlan & Theodore's Spring/Summer 2010 campaign, shot with model Erin Wasson; for Italian luxury label Bottega Veneta's Spring/Summer 2010 campaign; for shoemaker Jimmy Choo in 2011 with model Linda Vojtova; and for Dior in 2013, 1000 LIVES, featuring Robert Pattinson.
In March 2018, clothing brand Supreme released a collaborative range with Goldin as part of their Spring/Summer 2018 collection. This consisted of jackets, sweatshirts and t-shirts in various colors.
Personal life
Goldin is bisexual.
Awards
- 2006: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- 2007: Hasselblad Award.
- 2012: 53rd Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.
- 2018: Royal Photographic Society Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship
Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Collection Lambert, New York
- Currier Museum of Art
- Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Guggenheim Museum, New York
- The Jewish Museum, New York City
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Gallery of Australia
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Tate, London
See also
In Spanish: Nan Goldin para niños
