Topic: Nan Goldin

US photographer Nan Goldin accused a Rio museum of pointless censorship on Thursday after it barred her exhibition containing images of sexual situations, drug use, and children."It's ironic that this happens in Brazil, a country that has always seemed open ...

Rio museum cancels Nan Goldin exhibition

A Rio museum canceled a January exhibition of pictures by renowned US photographer Nan Goldin because it includes nude scenes, sex and drugs, press reports said Tuesday.The Oi Futuro museum scrapped the show after deciding some of the thousands of pictures ...

Artist profile: Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin ( 1953 - present ) is a contemporary American fine-art and documentary photographer, and indeed is one of the leading contemporary photographers to have successfully combined the two genres. Goldin moved to New York after graduation and became involved in - and documented - the ...

The Family of Nan 1990 92

Aspects of the topic The Family of Nan, 1990-92 are discussed in the following places at Britannica. People The following are some people associated with "The Family of Nan, 1990-92" Nan Goldin (American photographer)

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Aspects of the topic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Nan Goldin (American photographer)) .

PHOTOGRAPHY: Step Right Up

Wonder is the fluorescent promise of a peepshow; it is the Metropolitan Museum's formal tumble of stairs; it is the vault-like entrance to the Mary Boone Gallery; it is stage lights, circus tents, and velvet ropes. The Katzs' portraits document a ...
Paris landmark: Famed taxidermy store, gutted by fire, rises anewParis' most famous taxidermy shop, Deyrolle, is rising anew, a year after being gutted by fire.Ninety percent of the stuffed animals stocked in the 178-year-old store went up in smoke from lions ...

'My camera has saved my life'

Nan Goldin leads me into the bedroom of her Paris apartment, fluffs up a pillow and settles down on her bed, lighting a cigarette. She curled up with her boyfriend Brian, and later shot a bruised self-portrait after he hit her.Down ...

Artists beginning with G (part one)

Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews (c1750), Mary Countess Howe (c1764), Mrs Robinson, 'Perdita' (1781)The wet sky and dew-chilled fields of the English landscape, and the forbidding faces of the people who own it, have never been better caught than by ...

"When Color Was New"

Every kid knows that black-and-white photography is boring; every teenager knows the medium is Art with a capital A; and any grown-up can see that it's receding into obscurity. Color, of the homey snapshot and the glamorous glossy, is no longer ...