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Nancy “Nan” Goldin (USA,
b.
1953)
MASH NAKED AT THE BAR ROUGE, TOKYO, 1998
cibachrome print; (artist’s proof; no. 1)
signed, dated and titled on reverse
24 by 16.5 in. (60.96 by 41.91cm)
Exhibited:
‘From The Collection Of’, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, June-December, 2014.
Following graduation from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University,
Goldin moved to New York City. She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene,
along with the city's vibrant gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was drawn
especially to the hard-drug subculture of the Bowery neighbourhood; these photographs,
taken between 1979 and 1986, form her most famous work,The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
The present work is from a series Goldin made of bar girls affectionately photographed in the
Far East in the 1990s.
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,480-£2,220 approx.)