Text Notes Nan Goldin

Nan and her friends lived through and belonged to the glam rock era. This era was associated with sex, drugs, sex, AIDS, suicide and many other negative ways of living. Goldin had her camera with her at all times to document her life. she was showing the real while most photographers seemed to be looking into a way to document what life should be or shooting images that didn't pertain to life at all. Her photos are controversial in the 70's and still today. It is hard to look at her images and keep a straight face. Her pictures are her diary, you know the place where all the dirty secrets come out.
Nan and her friends were a close knit group and therefore she could photograph without people trying to elude her. She showed everything from bathroom scenes to sex scenes in her work. Goldin turned the ametuer act of a snapshot into art. Mainly because her snapshots were so unbelievable, but every one of them is a fact. Goldin never realized that her shots would someday become famous.

I was intrigued about what she shot and how she did it. Mainly because of how taboo her pictures are. Our society doesn't normally accept images of this caliber. I am a fan of most things that go against the flow of modern day society not in a lost anarchist point of biew but just from a perspective of showing what people really do and never talk about i.e. sex, abusive relationships, death, et cetra.