The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986). The image on the cover is "Nan and Brian in Bed" (1981).

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Biography

Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the DC area suburbs in Maryland, but ran away from home and was fostered by a variety of families. Her later schooling was at the Satya Community School in Boston, where a teacher introduced her to the camera in 1968, when she was fifteen years old. Her first solo show was in Boston in 1973, based on her photography among the city's gay and transvestite communities, to which she had been introduced by her friend David Armstrong. It was he who renamed her "Nan". She graduated from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1977/8, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints. For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N  - Longitude 75° 03′ W to 79° 29... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... Transvestism is literally the practice of cross-dressing, wearing the clothing of the opposite sex, and transvestite literally refers to a person who cross-dresses. ... The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (also known as the Museum School or SMFA) is an undergraduate and graduate college located in Boston, Massachusetts and is dedicated to the visual arts. ... Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, suburbs of Boston. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Ilfochrome, formerly known as Cibachrome, is a C-Type positive-to-positive photographic process used for the reproduction of slides on photographic paper. ...

After graduation, she moved to New York City and began documentary photography of the post-punk new-wave music scene, and the city's vibrant gay subculture in the late 1970's and early 1980's. gradually being drawn in to the Bowery's hard drug subculture. These photographs, taken from 1979 to 1986, form her famous work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.^[1] The snapshot aesthetic images depict drug use, violent, aggressive couples and autobiographical moments. Most of her Ballad subjects were dead by the 1990s due to either drug overdoses or AIDS, including close friends and often photographed subjects, Cookie Mueller and Greer Lankton. In addition to the Ballad she combined her pictures in two other series I'll Be Your Mirror^[2] and All by Myself. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... The Bowery is a well-known street in Manhattan that more or less marks the boundary between Chinatown and Little Italy on one side and the Lower East Side on the other—running from Chatham Square in the south to Astor Place in the north. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... The term snapshot aesthetic refers to a trend that began to influence fine art photography in the USA from around 1963. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... The term drug overdose (or simply overdose) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced. ... For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ... Cookie Mueller (born Karen Mueller (August 1, 1949 - November 10, 1989) was an American actress and writer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, who featured in many of filmmaker John Waters early films including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living. ... Greer Lankton (1958-1996) was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. ...

Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a slideshow and has been shown at film festivals. Most famous is a 45 minute show in which 800 pictures are displayed. The main themes of her early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality, usually made with available light. Slideshow is a modern concatenation of Slide Show. A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen images, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes. ... Available Light is a 2005 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn. ...

Goldin's recent pictures (since 1995) have included a wide array of subject matter, including collaborative book projects with famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki; landscapes of New York skylines; uncanny landscapes (notably of people in water); her lover, Siobhan; and babies, parenthood and family life. She was the winner of the 2007 Hasselblad Award. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Nobuyoshi Araki , born May 25, 1940 in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. ... The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is an award granted to a photographer recognized for major achievements. The award - and the foundation - was set up from the estate of Erna and Victor Hasselblad. ...

In September of 2007, Northumbria Police seized the photograph "Klara and Edda belly-dancing" before it was shown at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, on suspicion that it may have violated UK child pornography laws. The photo shows a young girl with her legs apart. According to an article by Reuters, dated 10-26-2007, one child is nude; this fact is in the caption under the second photograph with the article, at least the AOL on-line version. ^[3] The photograph was on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John who purchased it as part of the "Thanksgiving" installation in 1999.^[4] Northumbria Police is the police force for the north English counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. ... The BALTIC Centre as viewed from the Millennium Bridge The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts centre located on the South Bank of the River Tyne close to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, in Gateshead in the north-east of England. ... Child pornography refers to pornographic material depicting children. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ...

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The photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world. It can be found in the monograph of Ms. Goldin's works entitled `The Devil's Playground' (Phaidon, 2003), has been offered for sale at Sotheby's New York in 2002 and 2004, and has previously been exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich without any objections of which we are aware.^[5]

.. but a spokeswoman for London's Saatchi Gallery has since confirmed that the picture was in fact one of the photographs which - following a complaint from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid - the Metropolitan Police Service's Obscene Publications Unit seized from the gallery's 2001 "I Am a Camera" exhibition.^[6] The Saatchi Gallerys new premises in Chelsea, opening early 2007. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the name currently used by the territorial police force which is responsible for Greater London other than the City of London (the responsibility of the City of London Police). ...

However, at that time, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) deemed it not to be an indecent image.^[7]

As of October 1, 2007, in a statement from Jane Jackson, curator of the Elton John Photographic Collection: "We have made arrangements to close the 'Thanksgiving' Installation at The Baltic with immediate effect. It was always intended that the Installation be exhibited as a whole, and not on a piecemeal basis, and our decision has been made with regard to the artistic integrity of the work and the artist."

The photograph "Klara and Edda belly-dancing" was again judged "not indecent" by the Crown Prosecution Service. ^[8]

Goldin currently lives in New York and Paris, resulting in the Pompidou Centre holding a major retrospective of her work in 2002. Her hand was injured in a fall in 2002, and currently remains with less ability to turn it than in the past. ^[9] This article is about the state. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... The Pompidou Centres famous external skeleton of service pipes. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Criticism

Some critics have accused her of making heroin-use appear glamorous, and of pioneering a grunge style that later became popularized by youth fashion magazines such as The Face and I-D. Goldin has, however, called the use of "heroin chic" to sell clothes and perfumes "reprehensible and evil." For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... For other uses, see The Face (disambiguation). ... i-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. ... Kate Moss in a 1990s Calvin Klein ad Heroin chic, characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes, and jutting bones, was a look popularized in mid-1990s fashion. ...

Portrayal in film

The character of Lucy Berliner played by actress Ally Sheedy in the film "High Art" was based on Goldin's life and work.^[10] Alexandra Elizabeth Ally Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. ... High Art (1998) is an independent movie directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell. ...

Bibliography

• (2003) Devils Playground. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0714842233.
• (1997) Love Streams. Yvon Lambert.
• (1996) I'll Be Your Mirror. Scalo Publishers. ISBN 978-3931141332.
• (1986) The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Aperture. ISBN 978-0893812362.

References

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External links

• Nan Goldin at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Interview with Nan Goldin
• Nan Goldin at the Galerie Yvon Lambert
• Reuters article on-line at AOL stating one child in her photograph is nude. See second caption under photograph.