Nan Goldin was born 1953 in Boston, MA. She is a contemporary photographer that is known for exploring themes within love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality. Her career began at 18 when she “fell in with the drag queens”. She lived with many drag queens in downtown Boston and photographed her life among them. She attended the Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; after graduation she moved to NYC and continued to photograph LGBT-related themes throughout the post-punk new-wave music scene in the late 1970’s. Her work continued on throughout the late 1990’s.
Nan Goldin’s photography styles can be described as a snapshot aesthetic. Her work is displayed in a series of photobooks that are dated between the 1970's through the 1990's. All of her photos are candids taken from her personal life and the people around her, she believed that her photography was “proof that [she] lived, and no one could revise it”.
In an interview Nan states, “I didn’t care about good photography, I cared about complete honesty”. She said, “it was a sin to move a beer bottle”, she never adjusted anything or staged any of her photos because she wanted her images to show exactly what was going on in her life.
Jimmy Paulette and Tabboo! undressing, NYC
1991
Nan one month after being battered
1984
Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC
1991
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