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These groups of pictures include themes titled “The Other Side”, “Recovery”, “AIDS”, “First Love”, “Mon am'”, “Elements” and “Still on Earth”. Valerie in the taxi, Paris, 2001 by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. Goldin’s art is also one of the clearest manifestations of the vitality of the realist tradition today, that tradition in literature and painting where everyday life and the most humble of beings are represented with dignity. Goldin wants to remember her personal life in every detail; people encountered, experiences shared, emotions felt, relationships that endure over time.

This book features a significant body of latest work by Goldin, including photographs from new series such as Still on Earth (1997-2001), 57 Days (2000) and Elements (1995-2003), many of which are previously unpublished. After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts, Goldin moved to New York in 1978, drawn by the myth of the artist’s life in the big city.

Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager, Sofortversand - - The most significant book published to date on Nan Goldin (b. It also presents over three hundred prints of photographs taken since the 1970s, with a particular attention towards her recent works.

She is most famous for her Ballad of Sexual Dependency photographs, a constantly changing slide show of approximately 750 photographs set to music. The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date.

Beautifully bound in red cloth, it was issued in a specially made box together with an original print entitled, "Guido floating, Levanzo, Sicily, 1999. Laid out in diary-like sequences by Goldin herself, the material is both courageously candid and affirmative. In recent years, Goldin also has photographed magical landscapes like the intensely blue sea in a grotto in Capri, the Stromboli volcano steaming at dawn, ex-votos in Somma Vesuviana, or the smoking tar pits of Solfatara near Pozzuoli. Since the mid-1990s, Goldin’s images have become more tender and more infused with light, more about connection than alienation. This multimedia work is made up of more than seven hundred slides projected and accompanied by musical passages that serve as the narrative voice.

This book features a significant body of latest work by Goldin, including photographs from new series such as Still on Earth (1997-2001), 57 Days (2000) and Elements (1995-2003), many of which are previously unpublished. while “Mon am'” portrays another more mature couple of friends, with occasional apparitions of the woman’s child ( Valerie and Bruno Sex, Hand on Wall, Paris, 2001; Valerie, Bruno and Mel Laughing in Bed, Paris, 2001; etc. These 500 pages of beautifully reproduced colour pictures constitute a moving soulful and surprisingly optimistic record of the work of a genius.

C. in 1953, the artist spent her early childhood in a typical residential neighborhood of the great American suburbs. Encountering the installation is a continuous emotion: the musical background is a collage of the eclectic music the artist loves; the projected images run along the wall in incessant fashion, from the photo of a birthday party in 1981, with Goldin seated in ‘her’ boyfriend’s arms, to other embracing couples, to friends who cry while they confide in Nan, to women in bathtubs, to people drinking: “It’s ultimately about how difficult it is to couple, says the artist, and how intense the need is. Born in Washington DC, Goldin grew up in Boston where she began taking photographs at the age of 15. Goldin's life and friends became the focus of her work - a diary of friends and lovers in Europe and America, in the underground and gay scene.

She has since lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that represents an often disconcertingly seductive photographic portrait of our time.This book features a significant body of latest work by Goldin, including photographs from new series such as Still on Earth (1997–2001), 57 Days (2000) and Elements (1995–2003), many of which are previously unpublished. This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin’s inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading photographers.