Nan Goldin and her work as a photographer are closely linked to Berlin. She traveled regularly to the western part of the city starting in the 1980s, and spent a year in Berlin during the early 1990s as a guest of the DAAD Artists in Residence program. Nan Goldin’s work during this time, like her earlier work, captured her and her friends’ most intimate adventures in the midst of the city’s turbulent underground—without boundaries and without taboos. Her photographs have the attraction of intimacy: they give evidence of love, lust, and friendship, but at the same time, they are unique documents of loneliness, sickness, and the fragility of life. The image that Nan Goldin selected especially for the C/O Berlin limited edition is a photograph taken in 1992 on Hornstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Nan Goldin is considered one of the most influential documentary photographers of the late twentieth century. After completing studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, she moved on to color photography. In 1974, Nan Goldin produced her first exhibition project at the university in Cambridge. Goldin graduated in 1977, and one year later she moved to New York, where she started exhibiting more of her work. In 1995, her work was exhibited alongside other artist colleagues as part of the new “Boston School” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Just one year later, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York hosted a retrospective exhibition of the photographer’s works. Goldin lives and works in Paris.
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