series of photos of "Eden and After» («Eden and After») known photo artist from New York, Nan Goldin drawn to the theme of childhood, without excessive sentimentality, showing how people in small proklёvyvayutsya first stirrings of the imagination, empathy, curiosity and loneliness.
When Nan Goldin (Nan Goldin) was 12 years old, her family, while living in Boston, tragedy struck.Over 18-year-old sister Nan had committed suicide.The psychiatrist parents sent her youngest daughter, other girl the same into account.To escape from the oppressive atmosphere of collapsing home, or maybe just because of the spirit of rebellion of adolescence, she ran away from home and went on a tour of the bohemian world of nightclubs, promiscuity, alcohol and drugs.
his first photos Nan made even at the funeral of his sister.She later recalled that these photographs helped define her own place in the confusing way between birth and death.Her creative style of criticism, to meet the first major exhibition of Goldin enthusiastically, dubbed the term «raw insider» (raw - raw, unprocessed; insider - its not a stranger) for the characteristic feeling of "momentary" photos and challenging personal, on the verge of exhibitionism,themes and plots, characters who essentially becomes a member of her family, friends and lovers.
After almost half a century Goldin managed again in earnest to impress the world of art, already thoroughly poprivykshy to images of lust, pain, dark passions, and all kinds of addictions, published a book with children's photos.
new series of photographs Goldin, entitled "Eden and After» («Eden and After»), brings together tremulous moments of nascent life (from pregnancy to the first years of adolescence), paying attention not only to the highly traditional for this genre idealized image of happinessand unconditional parental love, but the themes of loneliness, confusion and helplessness, that there appear much less frequently.
Instead of sugary sentimental images of spirituality shine in the eyes of the expectant mother, paternal pride from the offense, rosy schёchek, pink heels and a moment perfect harmony Goldin offers viewers a candid and controversial portrait of childhood, showing how little people still in the process of identity formation,interact with their families, friends, associates, and inner peace.In other words, children's pictures rarely tempted to call "respectful," but perhaps in this case, such an epithet sounds quite organically.
Articles Source: kulturologia.ru
