Nan Goldin

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When the slideshow of Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency flipped past pictures of her ex Brian, I finally understood why she had photographed him so much.

“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism.

Ms. Goldin’s multimedia project “Scopophilia” — a term that means “love of looking” — pairs her photos with photos of works from the Louvre.

Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1981) arrived in Triennale: a slideshow made of more than 700 shots, witnessing Goldin's research.

Outsiders is a new, AGO-curated exhibition of more than 300 photographs and five films by such American masters as Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, Gordon Parks and Robert Frank

Nan Goldin, Bruce bleaching his eyebrows, Pleasant St., Cambridge, 1975. Silver dye bleach print, sheet: 40 × 27 3/8 in. (101.6 × 69.5 cm) Image: 38 3/8 × 25 3/4 in. (97.5 × 65.4 cm) Frame: 41 × 28 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (104.1 × 72.1 × 4.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 99.148. © Nan Goldin

“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism.

The photographer saw the beauty in America’s tragic wastelands and offered us new ways of seeing the world – here we trace the seminal moments in her five-decade career

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