Nan Goldin - Couples and Loneliness - 1998

Couples and Loneliness

Nan Goldin
Korinsha Publishing /1998/japanese,English/195*260*13

Couples and Loneliness, a collection of photographs by leading American photographer Nan Goldin. Goldin's life has been a journey of many emotions: she lost her sister when she was a student, became addicted to drugs, and fell in love with a lot of people. Goldin has kept a diary of her mind through her photographs. Joy, sadness, anger, sorrow. For Goldin, photography is a way of living in the present, confirming her existence and finding hope for the future. The subject is therefore himself and his friends around him. In the early days, (female) sexual desire was the main motivation for his photographs, as in his masterpiece The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), but he has since broadened his style to include spirituality and the search for human truth, as he states. He also states. This book, published in 1998 by the now defunct Korinsha Publishing, is a collection of Goldin's work, edited around his best-known works, with essays by Goldin himself in both English and Japanese. The book also provides an understanding of Goldin's maidenhood and thoughtfulness as a photographer.