dieses Bild: 'Christmas at the Other Side, Boston',1972     zweites: 'David at Grove Street, Boston', 1972
Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin’s photographs are a record of her life and her friends, documented by her snapshots since thirty years. In her “visual diary” she shows personal moments, starting with portraits of her friends from the gay and drag-queen scene in Boston during her studies in the seventies. She accompanies her friends all over the years, in happy moments, intimate situations, showing drug excesses and boring everyday life with the same curiosity. As Goldin is always part of the situations she documents, the photographs are never sensational or voyeuristic.

The importance of Goldin’s work lies in the impact of her snapshots on the public: she brings a community into the open that is often ignored and evokes an understanding for this “other” world: the world of gays and drag-queens, of junkies and people with AIDS.