Publisher: Steidl Hardcover : 142 pages Language: English
Nan Goldin’s second book once again takes us to the edges of our society. Ever exploring the underground of our cultural sexuality, Goldin has been obsessed with “The Other Side,” transexuals and transvestites, since 1972. Rather than an attempt to unmask, what has emerged is a body of rich black-and-white and color work that portrays these people on “The Other Side” with an intimate attitude true to there own fantasies and conceptions of themselves. Produced over two decades, Goldin’s photographs also serve to document the recent move toward a commitment to survival under the omnipresent peril of AIDS.
This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Published at a time when discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving rapidly, 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 1980s, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the ’90s, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines. 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 has loved, many of whom she has lost, over the last four decades.
At this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers? David Levi Strauss—eminent author, critic, and teacher—rises to the challenge of these questions and more in Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Past and Future of Photography.
Words Not Spent Today is an incisive exploration of photography’s changing role as a tool of evidence and conscience as we move forward into—can we say it?—a post-photographic era.
A wide range of illustrations complement the text throughout and each chapter includes creative tasks, keywords (linked to an online resource), summaries and suggested further reading. In addition, each of the main chapters include selected readings by notable authors across a range of subject areas, including: Art History, Business, Cognitive Science, Communication Studies, Infographics, Neuroscience, Photography, Physics, Science Studies, Social Semiotics, Statistics, and Visual Culture.
The Other Side: Nan Golden
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Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 142 pages
Language: English
Nan Goldin’s second book once again takes us to the edges of our society. Ever exploring the underground of our cultural sexuality, Goldin has been obsessed with “The Other Side,” transexuals and transvestites, since 1972. Rather than an attempt to unmask, what has emerged is a body of rich black-and-white and color work that portrays these people on “The Other Side” with an intimate attitude true to there own fantasies and conceptions of themselves. Produced over two decades, Goldin’s photographs also serve to document the recent move toward a commitment to survival under the omnipresent peril of AIDS.
This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Published at a time when discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving rapidly, 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 1980s, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the ’90s, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines. 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 has loved, many of whom she has lost, over the last four decades.
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