Nan Goldin's mirror: autobiography in snapshots

Zusatztext

Nan Goldins photos are characterized by vibrant colours, beautiful framing and especially by a constant exposition of the artists intimacy. On Nans images, the autobiographic description is seen as the only choice and, therefore, is taken to the utmost consequences. In spite of the fact that nowadays the western society is immersed in many expositions of various Is, Nan Goldins work was pioneer in this area in many aspects, and its appearance was just possible because of some social changes that had taken place over the last centuries. This work aims to present an initial analysis of the work of this photographer, situating it in its time and taking as a basis these social transformations that took place before it, which were described by Richard Sennett, Anthony Giddens, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. An examination of the aesthetic aspects of four of Nan Goldins images presented in the work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency gives consistency to this analysis.

Autorenportrait

Natalia Sahlit is a Brazilian photographer, visual artist and journalist. This book was conceived as her final work in the Cinema course of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil). Natalia's own photographic practise deals with quotidian elements to talk about loss, failure and impossibility.

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