Nan Goldin is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Nan Goldin as American photographer (born 1953).
Nan Goldin was born at Washington, D.C. in 1953. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
She worked as photographer, printmaker and multimedia artist.
Her recorded movement is documentary photography.
Her best-known work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in United States shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
- Movement: documentary photography
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