I’ll Be Your Mirror
Nan Goldin
The Whitney Museum of American Art
English and German
Donated by the OPW 2022.
Hardcover
491 Pages
200 x 270 mm
1996
ISBN 9780874271027
Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, I’ll Be Your Mirror was the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin’s most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and the harrowing and moving documentation of the slow death from AIDS of close friend Cookie Mueller. Scalo Publishers released this seminal book at a new and more affordable price, making this classic title accessible to an even wider audience of Goldin’s fans than ever before.
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About the Artist
First as a teenager in Boston in the 1960s, then in New York starting in the 1970s, Nan Goldin has taken intensely personal, spontaneous, sexual, and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. In 1979 she presented her first slideshow in a New York City nightclub, and her richly colored, snap-shot-like photographs were soon heralded as a groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency—the name she gave her ever-evolving show—eventually grew into a forty-five-minute multimedia presentation of more than 900 photographs, accompanied by a musical soundtrack, and published as an award-winning book.
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About the Publisher
In her 1994 book Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks states that “education [is] about the practice of freedom.” The Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art is dedicated to engaging in that practice, and to promoting diverse voices within American art and our community. Focusing especially on those who have been historically marginalized, we place the learner at the center of our programs and resources. At the Whitney, we see museum education as an experimental process in which art serves as a catalyst for exploration, learning, and growth.
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