NAN GOLDIN
“If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what”
Nan Goldin documented the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. She was drawn especially to the Bowery’s hard-drug subculture; these photographs were taken between 1979 and 1986.These snapshot aesthetic images depict drug use, violent, aggressive couples and autobiographical moments. The New York Times described Goldin’s work as "forged a genre, with photography as influential as any in the last twenty years.”
