Valerie in the taxi, Paris, 2001 by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. Over half of the pictures were created since 2000 and after her move from New York to Paris, where she currently lives. The book and the print come in a specially made box together with an original Cibachrome print titled "Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back", also signed and numbered by Nan Goldin. At first, the book introduces itself with pictures of ocean and nature in general, which are like the calm before the storm.

Goldin’s art is also one of the clearest manifestations of the vitality of the realist tradition today, that tradition in literature and painting where everyday life and the most humble of beings are represented with dignity. After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts, Goldin moved to New York in 1978, drawn by the myth of the artist’s life in the big city. In recent years, Goldin also has photographed magical landscapes like the intensely blue sea in a grotto in Capri, the Stromboli volcano steaming at dawn, ex-votos in Somma Vesuviana, or the smoking tar pits of Solfatara near Pozzuoli.Titled “ I’ll Be Your Mirror“, it brought together powerful images expressing the range of joys and sorrows that her work had reflected up to then. The Devil’s Playground was the first major book to be published on Goldin’s work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date.

Instead she is a modern photographer, someone who still believes in the capacity of the photographic image to represent the truth, to indicate and make a memorial from authentic experiences. Looking at all these lives, all these desires and moments of solitude induces in the viewer a sense of emotional overdose, something like looking at the details of every figure in a representation of hell in a Medieval Last Judgment. Goldin wants to remember her personal life in every detail; people encountered, experiences shared, emotions felt, relationships that endure over time. I don’t do that at the moment (who knows in the future), I create narratives based on those moments and emotions. The underlying theme of survival – the artist’s own as well as that of others – is present throughout Goldin’s oeuvre – but it emerges forcefully in these recent pictures, after the loss of many of her friends to AIDS and drugs over the years.These 500 pages of beautifully reproduced colour pictures constitute a moving soulful and surprisingly optimistic record of the work of a genius. This intense, roller-coaster ride through pain and pleasure is made bearable by the extraordinary beauty of the photographs. Goldin's life and friends became the focus of her work - a diary of friends and lovers in Europe and America, in the underground and gay scene. She documents life as lived … It is fitting that the sequencing, which was laid out by Goldin herself, feels distinctly diary-esque: the profound insights often to be found in a seemingly abstract moment. This book features a significant body of latest work by Goldin, including photographs from new series such as Still on Earth (1997–2001), 57 Days (2000) and Elements (1995–2003), many of which are previously unpublished.

This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin's inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today's leading photographers. This is the Special Collectors edition of The Devil's Playground, limited to 100 copies, SIGNED and numbered by Nan Goldin. Since the 1980s, Goldin has consistently created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time. In the Times Square bar where she worked to earn money, or at underground cinemas and downtown clubs, she projected unique slide shows.

The titles of the works tell us the names of these friends, making them familiar: Suzanne Crying, New York, 1985; Cookie and Vittorio’s Wedding, New York, 1986; Joey at the Love Ball, New York, 1991, etc. However, in the postmodern era of the society of spectacle, it increasingly has become a technique for inventing a parallel reality, a fiction, or a simulacrum.

Gebraucht - Gut GU - Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - - The most significant book published to date on Nan Goldin (b. The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date. These groups of pictures include themes titled “The Other Side”, “Recovery”, “AIDS”, “First Love”, “Mon am'”, “Elements” and “Still on Earth”. The storm comes with personal family pictures, which at first looked like a usual family album pictures… but that was exactly the problem (? At the same time, her art visualizes what characterizes personal memory and distinguishes it from the collective – the way we have of ‘filing away’ life in idiosyncratic fashion, like a fluid and changing universe of traces and details, and without objective relationships of scale among the various memories.

Looking through a camera placed in people’s houses and rooms to observe the usual moments of their life. She has since lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that represents an often disconcertingly seductive photographic portrait of our time. Every shot is the maximum moment of an encounter, that instant that inevitably precedes separation, the lens that closes, darkness. And so while still a teenager, she began to shoot ‘snapshots’, thousands of images, like most young people did during the 1970s and 1980s – before computers.