David and Butch Crying, Tin Pan Alley, New York City
Photograph
1981 (made)
1981 (made)
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This photograph is typical of the style of photography that Nan Goldin has forwarded within the art arena for the last thirty years. The image has a causal quality to its photographic style, akin to the qualities of the photographs that we take of our families and friends at social and domestic events. Goldin's photographs are refering to the intimacy that we can often reach in our amateur photographs but Goldin's contribution to contemporary art photography has been to bring this quality into the public arena of the art world. In this photograph, printed much larger than snappy snap style embedded in the uneven flash lighting and photographic 'red eye' that we see, Goldin captures an intimate moment, after the couple have, perhaps, argued and now attempt to compose themselves for the camera.
Object details
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| Title | David and Butch Crying, Tin Pan Alley, New York City (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Dye destruction print |
| Brief description | 20thC. Goldin Nan, David with Butch crying; 20thC; Goldin Nan, David with Butch crying |
| Physical description | Photograph |
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| Credit line | Copyright Nan Goldin, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery |
| Object history | Nan Goldin’s book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was one of the most influential series of photographs of the 1980's. It was originally presented as a slide show accompanied by a rock soundtrack and brought an intimate, even amateur, use of photography into the arena of contemporary art. It is a pictorial journey, documenting, with total candour, Goldin’s ‘extended family’ of Bohemian friends, drug addicts, transvestites, clubbers and battered lovers. The images are particularly powerful because of the photographer's involvement with her subjects over a 20 year period. |
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| Summary | This photograph is typical of the style of photography that Nan Goldin has forwarded within the art arena for the last thirty years. The image has a causal quality to its photographic style, akin to the qualities of the photographs that we take of our families and friends at social and domestic events. Goldin's photographs are refering to the intimacy that we can often reach in our amateur photographs but Goldin's contribution to contemporary art photography has been to bring this quality into the public arena of the art world. In this photograph, printed much larger than snappy snap style embedded in the uneven flash lighting and photographic 'red eye' that we see, Goldin captures an intimate moment, after the couple have, perhaps, argued and now attempt to compose themselves for the camera. |
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| Accession number | PH.662-1987 |
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| Record created | July 25, 2003 |
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