Artist: Nan Goldin
Title: Nan, One Month After Being Battered
Date: 1984
Most series done by Nan Gouldin are of friends, family and herself. Her style is like a snapshot style, as if to record information of a happy time to remember, like most people do. BUt her images are brutally honest and personal. The titles of the works have the actual names of the people in them. She shows feelings of happy, sad, depressed, angry and everything in between. For most of the Seventies and Eighties, Goldin captured the sex and drug addiction side to her life and those in her life. They partied and had fun, but they also would withdraw from drugs or die from AIDs, and she documented it all. This image is of her with a beaten face and the only information really given about this image is that this was taken a month after the event had happened. She gives enough information to lead stories among the viewers. This is a good opposing example to David Levinthal, since both artists give us information to go off of to base this photo on, but Goldin’s work is of real events rather than staged.
Very effective piece. Brutally honest to say the least. Although it is like a snapshot, i like her attention to color in this photo. The vibrancy of the orange and reds, push off from the backdrop of the light myrtle green.
ReplyDeleteagreed with all - a very heavy photo of goldin indeed. its really sad, like much of her work.
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