Visual culture Year 2 Journal 8

Nan Goldin

Source: nan goldin film

Nan goldin is a photographer than found her fame through her visual story of her life in the 70's and 80's. She would take images of herself, friends and boyfriends, sometimes dealing with hard to digest stories such as domestic violence from a lover. 

The film about her life was created using her own images and interviews with the friends she took photographs of all narrated by herself in a voice over. 

Her style of photography is very raw and is about as real as it gets, through her life and she she explains and shows in her films she has gone through great loss in her life many of her friends and family passed in tragic ways such as suicide and aids etc. A lot of her friends died due to aids because as she explains in her film, she was living in a time when safe sex wasn't a known thing, everyone would sleep with whoever they wanted and wouldn't care.

I will show examples of some of the work she used to go alongside her film.

Her approach to photography is a documentary style, she picked up a camera and took photographs for fun, to document the fun she was having, she said herself she did not expect the become a well known photographer with those photos at the time she was taking them.