American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.
The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.
1988 cibachrome print 39 x 58.9 cm (15 3/8 x 23 1/4 in.) Signed, titled, dated and numbered 'Self-portrait in The Lodge, Belmont, Ma. 1988 Nan Goldin 2/25' on the reverse. This work is number 2 from an edition of 25.
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £1,875
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