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Nan Goldin
PhotographerKnown for:
intimate documentary photography of subcultural life
Education:
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; School of Visual Arts, New York
Nan Goldin began photographing her circle of friends in Boston and New York in the 1970s, documenting drag queens, lovers, and the everyday intimacy of subcultural life with a snapshot aesthetic deliberately opposed to the monumental. Her slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) was shown in clubs and art spaces before being published as a book. In recent years she has become an outspoken activist against the Sackler family and their role in the opioid epidemic.
Nan Goldin's Gear List(2)
Kodak
Connection note
Goldin's intimate documentary photography was shot on color and black-and-white film, including Tri-X for her early work. Her material choices are documented in "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1986).
Product description
In production since 1954, Tri-X 400 is a black-and-white film whose grain structure, broad exposure latitude, and response to push processing made it the dominant film in photojournalism and street photography for decades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
