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The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date. In the intensely haunting images of this “ Devil’s Playground“, the sky and the sea are not totally separate, and the air becomes thick.

Goldin wants to remember her personal life in every detail; people encountered, experiences shared, emotions felt, relationships that endure over time. This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin's inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today's leading photographers. Without reading about the book beforehand and finding information about what the series of photographs included in this book are, I jumped right into viewing.These 500 pages of beautifully reproduced colour pictures constitute a moving soulful and surprisingly optimistic record of the work of a genius. Looking through a camera placed in people’s houses and rooms to observe the usual moments of their life. After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts, Goldin moved to New York in 1978, drawn by the myth of the artist’s life in the big city. Goldin's life and friends became the focus of her work - a diary of friends and lovers in Europe and America, in the underground and gay scene.

Over half of the pictures were created since 2000 and after her move from New York to Paris, where she currently lives. You'll be drawn in, turned on, disgusted, or in love with this absorbing book, which has a strange beauty of it own.Sometimes she does not decide what she thinks of a person until she has photographed that person: and so photography provides her with a tool to free her fears and a guide for ‘translating’, grasping and understanding her own life. The book and the print come in a specially made box together with an original Cibachrome print titled "Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back", also signed and numbered by Nan Goldin.

And so while still a teenager, she began to shoot ‘snapshots’, thousands of images, like most young people did during the 1970s and 1980s – before computers. In recent years, Goldin also has photographed magical landscapes like the intensely blue sea in a grotto in Capri, the Stromboli volcano steaming at dawn, ex-votos in Somma Vesuviana, or the smoking tar pits of Solfatara near Pozzuoli. Gebraucht - Gut GU - Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - - The most significant book published to date on Nan Goldin (b. The underlying theme of survival – the artist’s own as well as that of others – is present throughout Goldin’s oeuvre – but it emerges forcefully in these recent pictures, after the loss of many of her friends to AIDS and drugs over the years.

In the Times Square bar where she worked to earn money, or at underground cinemas and downtown clubs, she projected unique slide shows. Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back" by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. This chapter was hard for me to go through in the library, having people around me, watching me watch other people being naked in a personal and intimate moment. This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin’s inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading photographers. Titled “ I’ll Be Your Mirror“, it brought together powerful images expressing the range of joys and sorrows that her work had reflected up to then.