"My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back."
"My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back."
Arguably no artist, and certainly no photographer, of this era has created a more symbiotic relationship between life and art than Nan Goldin. For 35 years it has been her obsession to record her world, and not once has she arranged or directed the subjects of her pictures. In a perfect complement of technique and subject, an unsteady finger on the shutter release matches the swoon of lovers or the euphoria of a party, just as warm, interior light steeps a figure in isolation, amplifying the shade of the drink in front of her…