{"title":"Nan Goldin","description":"\u003cp\u003eNan Goldin (b. 1953) is an American photographer whose practice has centred on intimate documentary work within her own social and personal world since the 1970s. Her landmark work \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency\u003c\/em\u003e — first shown as a slide show in New York clubs and later published as a book in 1986 — established a mode of photographic intimacy that has shaped documentary, fashion, and art photography for four decades. Working with available light, colour film, and close proximity to her subjects, Goldin produced an extended visual record of desire, dependency, violence, friendship, and loss within the downtown New York scene, the AIDS crisis, and her own ongoing life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications collected here document Goldin's practice and its circulation, including artist books, exhibition catalogues, and printed matter through which her photographic world entered institutional and private hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"goldin-nan-biesenthal-document-journal-saint-laurent-2017","title":"Nan Goldin — Biesenthal, Document Journal \/ Saint Laurent, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eA slender publication produced at the intersection of artist book, fashion document, and photographic sequence. Rather than functioning as a conventional campaign catalogue, \u003cem\u003eBiesenthal\u003c\/em\u003e occupies an ambiguous space between editorial commission and autonomous work. Goldin's characteristic visual language remains intact: intimacy, dependency, desire, boredom, friendship, performance, and private life unfolding through soft focus and available light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project takes its title from Biesenthal, a small town outside Berlin. The photographs move between interiors, landscapes, portraits, and loosely staged encounters, retaining the diaristic atmosphere that has defined Goldin's practice since \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency\u003c\/em\u003e. Even within a luxury-brand collaboration, the images resist polish. Bodies remain vulnerable, relationships remain unresolved, and narrative remains fragmentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uncommon publication from a period when fashion houses increasingly sought proximity to contemporary art, yet one that feels closer to Goldin's ongoing photographic world than to conventional brand publishing. Copies surface intermittently, appearing less frequently than many of her major trade publications and institutional catalogues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover artist book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour photographic reproductions throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Document Journal, in collaboration with Saint Laurent, 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light surface wear and handling marks from storage and circulation. Clean interior pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price. Packed flat and protected within archival materials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Document Journal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53619389890898,"sku":"GOLDIN-DOCJRNL-CAT-2017","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Goldin_Nan._Biesenthal._2017_back.jpg?v=1780327217"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/nan-goldin.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}