Nan Goldin Books

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin's seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993. There will be a revised introduction by Goldin, and for the first time the voices of those whose stories are represented. Now being released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility. The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early eighties, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the nineties, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin and Bangkok, photographing their public personas while showing their real lives backstage. Goldin's newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she's loved, many of whom she's lost, over the last four decades. The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria... - Nan Goldin

This celebrated American photographer made a career out of documenting the eccentric and often tragic lives of homosexuals, transsexuals and other gender-benders -- a series of close knit societies whose loyalty and generosity redefine the notion of family.

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Nan Goldin - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

Nan Goldin gilt als eine der führenden Fotografinnen der Gegenwart und wurde in den frühen 1980er Jahren durch "Die Ballade von der sexuellen Anhängigkeit" bekannt. Sie hat seither die individuellen Lebensgeschichten ihrer Freunde und ihrer Familie in Fotografien festgehalten. Ihr Werk wird in den Sammlungen von Kunstinstitutionen auf der ganzen Welt präsentiert und u. a. an Ausstellungsorten wie dem SFMOMA in San Francisco, dem Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdem, dem Centre Pompidou in Paris und der Whitechapel Art Gallery in London gezeigt.