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Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980
Nan Goldin
1980
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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.
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