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Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Farideh Goldin

An unflinching personal story of family, religion, and community that shows the horror of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism.
Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

Farideh Goldin

Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home.
Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

Guido Costa

Nan Goldin (b.1953) is most famous for her long-term photographic record of her immediate circle, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
A Double life

A Double life

Nan Goldin

Photographs by Nan Goldin and David Armstrong.
Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

Guido Costa

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Nan Goldin - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the ...
Nan Goldin (55s)

Nan Goldin (55s)

Guido Costa

Recognized internationally for her intimate and compelling images, the American photographer Nan Goldin (b.1953) has lived and worked in Boston, New York, Berlin and in Paris, her current home.
Desire by numbers

Desire by numbers

Nan Goldin

The interrelation of art and photography is brought to new heights of complexity as Nan Goldin's photographs of boy prostitutes in Southeast Asia accompany Klaus Kertess's story about the failure of love.
Art about AIDS: Nan Goldin's Exhibition Witnesses: Against ...

Art about AIDS: Nan Goldin's Exhibition Witnesses: Against ...

Sophie Junge

Goldin's first proposal for the show included 13 artists (David Armstrong, Tom Chesley, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jane Dickson, Barbara Ess, Greer Lankton, Mark Morrisroe, Perico Pastor, Kiki Smith, Janet Stein, Stephen Tashjian aka ...
Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. ...

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. ...

Andrew Friedman

Interview with John Macy, by Gholam-Reza Afkhami, December 26, 1984, 15, 25 –26, FISOHA. 200. “Farideh H. Pickett Iranian Embassy Staffer,” 201. Charles Wohlstetter, The Right Time, the Right Place (New York: Applause, 1997), 214– 17; ...
Emotions & relations: Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark ...

Emotions & relations: Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark ...

F. C. Gundlach

Uniting the five leading lights of the Boston School of American photography, this is a showcase for some of the most striking and compelling imagery on the contemporary scene.
The Girl in Kellers Way

The Girl in Kellers Way

Megan Goldin

When a body is found buried near the desolate forest road of Kellers Way, Detective Melanie Carter must identify the victim if she is to have any chance of finding the killer.
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies

Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies

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The forty-five women who created these works-artists and writers such as Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, and Carm Little Turtle-are connected by a belief that images are political and that today's feminist concerns cannot be ...
Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin

Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin

James Crump

A volume of previously unpublished photographs taken by the influential artist for the infamous 1983 independent film, Variety, offers insight into her symbiotic working process and the ways in which the series blends elements from music, ...
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry

The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry

Wendy Doniger

At Stanford University, in the autumn of 2010, I was privileged to talk about the project with the Andrew W. Mellon Scholars in the Humanities: Sarah Carey, Julie Draskoczy, Kate Elswit, Brendan Fay, Shana Goldin-Perschtbacher, Andrew ...
Male Nude Now

Male Nude Now

David Leddick

Feature Artists Include Lyle Ashton Harris Marc Baptiste Clive Barker Cecily Brown Chuck Close John Dugdale Todd Eberle Eric Fischl Nan Goldin Greg Gorman David Hockney Patrick McMullan Duane Michals Pierre et Gilles Jack Pierson Rankin ...

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