Fantastic tales : the photography of Nan Goldin
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Fantastic tales : the photography of Nan Goldin
Tate, 2005
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"First published in North America 2005 by the Palmer Museum of Art in association with The Pennsylvania State University Press on the occasion of the exhibition 'Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin', held at the Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, August 30-December 4, 2005, and presented as NanGolden:Fantastic Tales at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, December 17, 2005 - February 12, 2006."--colophon
Bibliography : p. 91
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Over the last thirty years Nan Goldin has achieved international fame as a photographer who, building on the tradition of Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, chronicles the lives of outsiders. In Goldin's case, those outsiders are her friends and acquaintances, the inhabitants of a bohemian demi-monde where divisions between gender and sexual orientation are blurred. Tenderness is coupled with a brutal honesty only possible through the empathy that exists between photographer and subject. Instead of concentrating on the documentary aspect of Goldin's work, as many previous authors have done, Jonathan Weinberg examines the way in which her photographs operate as 'Fantastic Tales', each containing the seed of a story for the viewer to explore, including many iconic images, as well as more recent forays into landscape photography. Produced in a luxuriously bound, eminently collectable edition, this is a fitting tribute to one of the masters of the modern-day photographic image.
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