Amanda on my Fortuny. Berlin

1993

Cibachrome print

50 × 60 cm

Nan Goldin pioneered a new way of photographing bodies, keeping a deeply intimate photographic diary of the romances and tragedies of her loved ones, who often hailed from communities that were seen as marginalised in the 1980s. Here she revealed the realities that orthodox morality refused to look in the face: sexual addiction, homosexuality, drugs, prostitution, violence, AIDS and death. Nevertheless, love, beauty and desire are always central to her images. Goldin compares her models to mythological heroes, whose 1,000 adventures recall Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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