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Goldin, Nan (Artist/Photographer); Sussman, Elizabeth (Curator) & Other Contributors : Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror

Whitney Museum Of American Art/Scalo Publishers, New York City, NY, 1996

ISBN 3931141330

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 492 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Hans Werner Holzwarth Berlin: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Green hard boards with black titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Nan Goldin. Essay by Elizabeth Sussman, who places Goldin in an artistic context ranging from Larry Clark to Lucian Freud. Commentary from a cast of Goldin's friends and colleagues, including Cookie Mueller, David Wojnarowicz, Luc Sante, and Darryl Pinckney. Interview with film critic J. Hoberman. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features a self-portrait on the cover, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1996-1997. Presents Nan Goldin's "I'll Be Your Mirror". Photographs taken over a 25-year period that document "Nan's Family", the underground culture of Manhattan and her "extended family" abroad, in faraway places like Thailand and the Philippines. Nan Goldin turns her camera outward, to record the social impact of AIDS and drugs, and inward, to observe with unblinking candor her friends, lovers, and herself. She photographs her battered face in the mirror after Brian beats her up (the mirror being the visual motif of the book). She photographs them kissing, making up, and making love. She traces the decline and death of her friend Cookie Mueller from AIDS. She shows male prostitutes in Bangkok and Manila, who opened their hearts to her. The universal primacy of erotic desire as seen through intimate friendships, casual sexual encounters, and full-fledged romances, what Goldin calls "coupling", is the collection's powerful theme. Not a scholarly analysis of Goldin's work, this is an emotionally charged document of her life and times, and her best work since "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency". An absolute "must-have" title for Nan Goldin collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the title page by the photographer: "For Paul X Nan Goldin". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is Paul Berlanga, an important Chicago-based photography expert and artist. The artist/photographer returned to the United States after living in Europe for the greater part of the last six years (2000-2006). She made a rare, sensational Chicago appearance on the occasion of the exhibition and acquisition of "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" by the Art Institute of Chicago. This title is a great photography book. This is the best such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 300 color plates. Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is regarded as the most important photography book since "Diane Arbus". One of the most influential artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NAN GOLDIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3931141330.

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