© Nan Goldin/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Pavel laughing on the beach, Positano, Italy
by Nan Goldin
Artist
Nan Goldin
(USA, född 1953)
Alternate Title
- Pavel skrattar på stranden, Positano, Italien
Date1996
MediumSilver dye bleach print
DimensionsBildmått: 69 × 101,5 cm
Yttermått: 71,3 × 103,4 × 4,1 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2004
Countries
On view
StockholmObject NumberMOM/2004/85
About the artworkThis picture shows a man – Pavel – laughing, with his head thrown back. Like a theatrical backdrop, the steep townscape of Positano appears behind him. Nan Goldin began photographing in her teens, and her friends were one of first main subjects. On moving to New York in 1978, after studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she came in touch with the bohemian circles on lower Manhattan. Life was intense, and Goldin and her friends cavorted in a whirlwind of drugs, desires and passionate relationships. In the midst of this tornado, she raises her camera and freezes a moment in time. Rather than the individual pictures, it is the flow of images that gives Nan Goldin’s oeuvre its strong impact. Her photos have been published as books and presented as slide shows. Her most famous series is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, published in 1986. The portrait of a laughing Pavel is part of Ten Years After (1998), with pictures from two trips to southern Italy, the first made in 1986. When Nan Goldin returned to Italy ten years later, her friends from the past had died, from drugs or in the 1980s AIDS epidemic. The book is like a reflection on the passing of time. The photo of Pavel is from her second journey in 1996.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Verso i bläck, For jan with much gratitude - Nan Selected exhibition history Ett sätt att leva. Svensk fotografi från Christer Strömholm till idag (den 1 februari 2014 - den 18 maj 2014) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Ett sätt att leva : [Moderna Museet Stockholm 6/9 2014 - 15/2 2015]
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Verso i bläck, For jan with much gratitude - Nan Selected exhibition history Ett sätt att leva. Svensk fotografi från Christer Strömholm till idag (den 1 februari 2014 - den 18 maj 2014) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Ett sätt att leva : [Moderna Museet Stockholm 6/9 2014 - 15/2 2015]