Among the common themes of Washington, D.C.–born Nan Goldin’s provocative photographic portraits are love, gender, and sexuality. Her subject matter has included the alternative club scene, drag queens, and friends dying of AIDS, and she often presents her work as slideshows. Goldin’s art was the subject of major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1996) and the Georges Pompidou Centre (2002). She is the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2007). In 1995, she collaborated with British filmmaker Edmund Coulthard on I’ll Be Your Mirror, a film about her life and work. She lives in New York and Paris.
Love is a net that nature spreads out in order to multiply humankind. (Love also exists among animals.) Only complete love is true love. True love does not have any higher or lower…
Sol Libsohn co-founded The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective, around the time he took this photograph. It captures a moment in the daily life of the people of a tenement…
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered…