My work derives from the snapshot. It is the form of photography that most closely stands for love.«
Nan Goldin, born 1953 in Washington DC, lives and works in Paris. Every one of Goldin´s photographs is like a window opening on a labyrinthine body of stories - some happy, some tragic. Her work is documentary in the best sense: it hews close to the world she knows, but it also indulges in the self-dramatization and pathos that together constitute a post-modern version of Romanticism. Nan Goldin´s photographs have become touchstones of the contemporary visual imagination, avidly collected all over the world and assimilated into the mainstream.