Nan Goldin’s raw, tender photographs chronicle the fleeting, often turbulent beauty of intimate, bohemian life. Her images—saturated in rich color and emotional intensity—capture moments of sex, love, addiction, loss, and resilience with unflinching honesty and lyrical depth. Goldin’s most iconic work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), is a deeply personal slideshow of nearly 700 photographs documenting her life in New York during the 1970s and ’80s. Through these snapshots, lovers embrace, drag queens revel, and the shadow of the AIDS crisis looms, revealing a community bound by both joy and tragedy. Widely regarded as a pioneer of diaristic photography, Goldin has exhibited at the Louvre, MoMA, Tate Modern, and other major institutions. Her work regularly commands six-figure prices at auction. In 2017, she extended her activism beyond the lens by founding P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), a group aimed at holding the Sackler family accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.

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Jimmy Paulette at Wigstock, NYC, 1991