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After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts, Goldin moved to New York in 1978, drawn by the myth of the artist’s life in the big city. You'll be drawn in, turned on, disgusted, or in love with this absorbing book, which has a strange beauty of it own.

She has since lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that represents an often disconcertingly seductive photographic portrait of our time.Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back,Paris2001" by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. Valerie in the taxi, Paris, 2001 by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date.

This intense, roller-coaster ride through pain and pleasure is made bearable by the extraordinary beauty of the photographs. In “First Love”, we see different moments of desire and tenderness in the life of her young nephew and his first lover ( Simon and Jessica on the Metro, Paris, 2001; Simon and Jessica Kissing in my Shower, Paris, 2001; etc. It comes in a specially made box together with an original Cibachrome print, also signed and numbered by Nan Goldin. C. in 1953, the artist spent her early childhood in a typical residential neighborhood of the great American suburbs.And so while still a teenager, she began to shoot ‘snapshots’, thousands of images, like most young people did during the 1970s and 1980s – before computers.

I don’t do that at the moment (who knows in the future), I create narratives based on those moments and emotions. Titled “ I’ll Be Your Mirror“, it brought together powerful images expressing the range of joys and sorrows that her work had reflected up to then.This multimedia work is made up of more than seven hundred slides projected and accompanied by musical passages that serve as the narrative voice. She has been mentioned several times in connection to my artworks (mostly photography) with the feeling that can be felt from the photos which influenced me to go take a look at the library in one of her books titled The Devil’s Playground. This chapter was hard for me to go through in the library, having people around me, watching me watch other people being naked in a personal and intimate moment.