Nan Goldin - 'My Work Comes from Empathy and Love' | TateShots

'My work has always come from empathy and love', says American photographer Nan Goldin.
Goldin began taking photographs as a teenager in Boston, Massachusetts. Her earliest works, black-and-white images of drag queens, were celebrations of the subcultural lifestyle of the community to which she belonged and which she continued to document throughout the 1990s. During this period Goldin also began making images of friends who were dying of AIDS and recorded her experiences travelling in Asia.
In this interview, Goldin introduces her latest book, Eden and After; a collection of portraits she has taken of children - one of the artist's ongoing photographic subjects. The book includes portraits of Goldin's close friends' children, with moments captured from pregnancy through to teenage years of life, and provides an intimate investigation into the narrative of childhood.
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[@sebby96xoxo]

"Do you remember God? Because I'm beginning to forget" Mind blown from the wisdom of a 4-year-old; thanks Nan Goldin for sharing that.

[@weirdguy4948]

Sebastian Sarti it’s not wisdom...

[@catherinehammond5245]

To me, it is a pure and simple truth. "Growing up" is an attempt to remember what we knew as new-borns. The luckiest of us never loose the connection.

[@hayleyanna2625]

Nan goldin art means so much to me. Her photography is so beautiful. For those of us who feel extremely marginalised /outside society, her work is comforting. Certainly for me. All those brilliant artists we lost through aids is extremely heartbreaking such as the magnificent David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, Cookie etc.. So many. Thank you Nan. Your work is important. ❤️

[@BookFreakyTube]

Loved her work at first sight. It's so profound and, at the same time, so genuinely simple.

[@martinilgner]

That woman definitely got some wisdom.

[@Gonzalo_Broto]

Watching your pictures and hearing you speak left me thinking for long. Actually I still am. Thank you.

[@kirstycollins4237]

So much joy in my heart right now. Thank you, Nan and Tate.

[@technestudio]

I don't know you personally, Nan, but you have shaped for my life in a very significant way.

[@sbai4319]

I am continually inspired by Nan's work. Thank you Nan!

[@senior_ranger]

I often tell people the best thing I ever did for my children was have them not be born. Thanks for a great view.

[@bodeaalex1142]

I could listen to her for ages.

[@jessietheemochick]

One of the most beautiful people alive.

[@lisengel2498]

I really connect with the first phrase to work from love - Thats the greatest transforming force in life

[@GenVirtu]

Very provocative. It's so true how our parents, not intentionally fuck us up by projecting their flaws on us. And we have to deal with theirs and ours. But amazing photography.

[@UteHamelmann]

Heartwarming and deep! Love!

[@KNW0001]

What a brilliant take she has on things. "...I'm beginning to forget..."

[@kiketapia3547]

My favorite RUclips video, ever.

[@FantasyFuchs]

what an amazing woman!

[@sugarlove]

beautiful!!!!!!

[@s.ormgamalson6489]

I agree

[@jakotelephone]

She's so clever I just ahhh only she could pull off something this controversial and this original

[@DarkAngelEU]

Not original, AUTHENTIC

[@danielmalter3373]

Today we find controversial that which would not have been 30 or 40 years ago. What a great artist she is.

[@lucybeaumont4266]

I love love love this ♥️

[@georgiawhiteley7250]

Very interesting and natural work love it x

[@nikuzo87]

The poem is by PHILIP LARKIN

[@Ko22Ko187]

Shot. Ich hasse sows

[@fusox]

I love this woman!!!

[@Demention94]

A real one.

[@nipunkrishnan5649]

I really like this video.

[@julialyra8361]

"Taught to forget"

[@paulwhite760]

she is right about parents...they should stop trying so hard...the worst are the stage mothers. I was the golden haired boy when I got results and when I got sick of that...I was a good-for-nothing-piece-of-shit. The benefit of that is you will HAVE to become your own authority , if you are going to survive as yourself. not some deluded idiots' dreams of oughta , havta , musta , shoulda. Cheers all

[@whitenights1387]

I'll never meet a woman more interesting than her....

[@esoteric_1]

Thank you Nan Goldin you inspired Cate Shortland to make a comic book movie for Marvel

[@morphman5668]

Beautiful

[@fredchopin2776]

I hear you!!

[@eladbari]

"..and don't have any kids yourself". -Pretty haunting phrase... you can never know if that's true..

[@DarkAngelEU]

You can if you use birth control lol

[@xx_pawluvr2009_xx]

its actually quite easy for half the population to know if thats true.

[@eladbari]

@@DarkAngelEU Huh? I meant, you can't know if it's a mistake until you actually have them...which then, there's no going back

[@eladbari]

@@xx_pawluvr2009_xx What is that half of the population? Childless population?
I'm talking about knowing if it's a good decision to have kids- can only be understood after you had them. Which then, it is too late to regret it.

[@derblae52]

I enjoyed the video very much as I do with most of Tate's offerings,but is it necessary for those annoying suggestion boxes of other videos at the very end.Also did you give credit to the music? Again there was no way to tell from the obstructions.

[@Tate]

Hello Berry Nutter,
Thank you for pointing out the obstruction. The suggestion boxes have now been removed. There is no music credit in this instance.
Very best :)
Tate

[@derblae52]

@@Tate Thank you.

[@cemisgezeksakini406]

I am looking for the name of the short film in which Nan Goldin's "Nan and Brian in Bed" photo is shown in a scene. Does anybody know the name of the movie and/or where can I watch it?

[@elangeldelamusica]

Hell yes!

[@1Ma9iN8tive]

Ko te mokopuna te kau o ngā mātua
Ko te kaumatua te puna o te moko
Children are the elders from source origin
Elders are the spring of origin story returning to source

[@pjp967]

Abject "Ready to Think" in the video and in the comments

[@alexanderpaterson7632]

Weird how the poem has been attributed to Philip Larkin in the credits. A little naughty

[@connectingthedots100]

❤️

[@sadiesmith4773]

At 3:50 "there's no more _________" is she saying Cibachrome?

[@seujorge1989]

I remember certain memories when I was 2, Who teaches Children to forget Nan?

[@TheGranti7a]

Sun King Yes, I have a couple of preverbal memories.

[@derblae52]

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

[@DevonMiniFlicks]

@@derblae52 But not my skateboard or my playstation :-)

[@mrcsanselmo]

Lindo

[@fernandacardoso3732]

❤❤❤💜💜🩵💙💕

[@kateneil2159]

Photographs credited but not poet!

[@bangkoknik5124]

She does not reference Philip Larkin. Only herself. What a fake.

[@enricovankeeken1624]

*?if i were a rich girl...*

[@lilithrising9713]

[@CHiLECHiLL456]

probably the most overrated photographer #imo

[@johnmmantel]

interesting. who are your favorite photographers

[@abenaz]

empathy? wasn't she a dominatrix or sumthin like dat lmao?

[@ines___xavier]

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