Pavel Topless, Naples, 1996

Junkie Madonna, Forcella, 1996

Statue with Flowing Breasts, Amalfi, 1996

Gilles and Gotscho Embracing, Paris, 1992

Gilles Arm, Paris, 1992

Born in Washington, D.C., in 1953, Nan Goldin grew up in Boston, where she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has lived in New York since 1978. Since eighteen years of age Goldin had used photography as a kind of visual diary of her own life and that of her extended family of friends and lovers with whom she shares her experiences.

The artist has said that she considers the camera an extension of her own arm, alluding to the continuity that links her art to her intense lifestyle. From her first suggestive portraits in black and white to the intense color photos of friends taken in the intimacy of their bedrooms, her images tell, through a kind of internal observation, of the irregular and passionate lives of those who have chosen to live outside the rules.