Nan GoldinThe Beautiful Smile

Photographs: Nan Goldin
Text: Gunila Knape, Walter Keller
Publisher: Steidl
Year: 2007
Price: € 130
This classic volume, which the photographer has called her favorite of all of her books, is a moving homage to her work. Nan Goldin adopts the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, a period massively determined by HIV and AIDS. Her practice of photography as memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation,























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