Nan Goldin.
I have chosen to look at the photographer Nan Goldin, I have chosen to look at this photographer as I like her ideas on how she wants people to view her work. When you look at her image you don’t fully understand them and there meaning, to find out what there meaning is you have to break the image down, you have to become a part of the image taking processes, recreating what went on before and during the taking of the image, she likes to call the viewer an extended part of her family. I really like this idea as it makes you part of the image and you feel a part of it, the image has more meaning that just looking at an image, she wants you to think about the image and what has happened to create it. She likes to take snap shots of life and the world around her and every image tells its own story be it a shocking story or a weird one.
There is one image that she took of her self after her partner beat her up, I think this is a very brave image to capture. It shows an abusive relationship that happens to manly people in the world yet she was brave enough to show the world what happens in that kind of relationship. She also has that image as a constant reminder of what happened and that must be a very hard thing to do.
She tries to capture a moment in someone life and I try to do the same with my own work, I try to capture a moment in someone’s life. The best example of this is my silo wet image, were I am trying to capture the grieving soldier. I am trying to capture that sad moment in someone’s life like she does in her images.
She has had her work published and shown at ‘New York’s Whtney Museum of American Art’ in 1996. She was also awarded a studying grant by ‘DAAD’ in 1991.
I really like this image because it shows movement in the image, this is something I am trying to get in one of my edits and I am finding it rather hard to do, she has managed to capture it perfectly.
Bibliography:
Nan Goldin 55
Phaidon Press Limited
2001
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