Nan Goldin

History of Photography
Spring 2003 Term Paper
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Nan Goldin has been photographically documenting her life which encompasses her friends and lovers for over thirty years. Goldin's style of photography has been described as documentary with a "snapshot"-esque aesthetic. I would describe Nan Goldin's photography as having a very
personal and narrative quality that allows her visual diary to be presented to the viewing public in an open manner. She has photographed her surrogate family which are the people in her life, or what she considers her family so
that others may see them as sh…