Nan Goldin
American · 1953–
Photographer whose raw, intimate slideshows and photographs of her community documented queer life, addiction, and loss with radical vulnerability.
Wikipedia ↗“I used to think I couldn't lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.”
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“My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them.”
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“Real memory, which these photographs trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life.”
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“For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody—it's a caress.”
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Interview, BBC, 1997 ↗ (1997)
“I don't ever want to be susceptible to anyone else's version of my history.”
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