The Devil's Playground Nan Goldin PHAIDON/2005/Japanese/H307×W230mm The Devil's Playgroung” is the culmination of Nan Goldin's photographic career. Since the 1970s, Nan Goldin has consistently made intimate and captivating photographs. Each is a story of relationships, friendships, and personal identity, as well as a record of its own time and passage of time. The book contains a series of new, mostly unpublished works, including “Still on Earth” (1997-2001), “57 Days” (2000), and “Elements” (1995-2003). Goldin's photographs, arranged in a diary-like order, are full of bold candor and affirmation. Interspersed among the photographs in the thematic chapters are poems, lyrics, and essays by outstanding writers and artists such as Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, E.E. Cummings, Cookie Muller, and Richard Price, some of which were written especially for this book. Some of them were written specifically for this book.