Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin's deeply personal exploration of female trauma and resistance. Sisters, Saints and Sibyls is a tribute to all rebellious women struggling to survive in society. Focusing on the tragic life of her sister, Barbara, Nan Goldin weaves together a tapestry out of medical records, family photographs, and mythical allusions to Saint Barbara to compose a haunting meditation on the...

First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency tribe. These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged, and seething with a raw appetite for living. The book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s. Goldin's lush colour photography and candid style still demand that the viewer encounter...