Photographers

Photographer

Nan Goldin

Birth Year
1953
Nationality
United States

Biography

American photographer known for intimate diaristic work documenting friends, identity, and subculture.

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Photobooks

15 photobooks

The Other Side

2019 · Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, Gerhard

The Beautiful Smile

2017 · Steidl

Diving for Pearls

2016 · Steidl

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

2014 · Aperture

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

2012 · Aperture

Nan Goldin (Phaidon 55s)

2010 · Phaidon Press Limited

The Devil's Playground

2003 · Phaidon Press Limited

The Other Side 1972–1992

2000 · Scalo Publishers

Nan Goldin (Stern Portfolio No. 11)

1999 · teNeues

I'll Be Your Mirror

1996 · Scalo Publishers

Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994

1995 · Scalo Publishers

A Double Life

1994 · Scalo Publishers

Cookie Mueller: Photographs

1991 · Pace/Macgill Gallery

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1989 · Aperture

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1986 · Aperture Foundation

News / Articles

The first exhibition in Italy to focus on the HIV-Aids crisis

2026-02-17 · British Journal of Photography

The article reviews the exhibition 'VIVONO – Art and Affect: HIV-AIDS in Italy, 1982–1996' at Centro Pecci, Prato. It highlights Nan Goldin as a key international artist whose work is deeply integrated into the Italian context of the HIV-AIDS crisis. The text specifically details her 1986 series from Naples with Cookie Mueller and her 1990s 'Junkie Madonna' photograph. The exhibition aims to move beyond mourning to celebrate the generative alliances, intimacy, and joy found within communities affected by the crisis during that era.

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