Since the 1970s, Nan Goldin has taken intensely personal, spontaneous, and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. In 1979 she presented her first slideshow in a New York City nightclub, and her richly coloured, snap-shot-like photographs were soon heralded as a ground-breaking contribution to fine art photography. In this early work, the artist has captured her friend lying across the back of a blue convertible with shirt open, eyes closed, and an empty can of Schaeffer beer by his side - a contemporary vision of glamorous surrender for our own time.
NAN GOLDIN (American, 1953)
Archival pigment print
80.8 x 118.9cm
Acquired in 2019
