Nan Goldin. Photography Report
Very personal work that revolves around the sexuality of her family and people around her.
“I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on TV had nothing to do
with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included
having a camera with me at all times.” – Nan Goldin
Since
the 1970s, she has been known for her shockingly raw images of desire,
addiction, sexuality, and abuse. I love it, absolutely love it how her
images show the real side of life, the visibility of what's underneath a
pretty face and nice clothes, a story, a tragedy.
I
would absolutely do something like this for my location photography,
something extremely personal and raw. However I feel I couldn't because
of the person I am, I couldn't expose such personal depth as I try to
hide it by my fair confidence, hatred, coldness and being the least
sympathetic person ever, people tend to describe me as mean, too honest
and cold hearted. The reason I'm like this is because I try to leave my
real life problems at home and in the past. And if I was to make a
personal series of works I would just be coming back to it and I'd hate
to do that because it makes me spew. As much as I enjoy when people make
their work personal and real, ironically I feel I don't have the
confidence to do it? No problem making it fairly personal, but that's
not fun, it's not revealing the whole package. At this point I think I
would rather just stick to admiring others personal work rather than
making my own.
The following photo's are perfect, they remind me of photo's that are found in photo albums. I like looking through my mums albums, they are filled with photo's like that, totally imperfect yet so perfect because they are so real, the fact they were taken way before the new generation of selfies and controlled photography. Most of them from parties and being fucked up because if you think about it that's the only time you really take photos and they are 100% real. I once asked my mum why she only has photos from when she's drunk etc and she said that she wouldn't go for a coffee with a friend and use up a whole film, because it's nothing interesting. Photo's that are taken whilst drunk are good because they never look the same the next day. I enjoy using disposable cameras the most because once you take a photo that's it, no editing, o deleting. You just have to wait for them to get developed and enjoy them as they are, it's beautiful.
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