Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin's tough, autobiographical frankness quickly established her in an all-male field of diaristic photographers, and her work has been exhibited and published ceaselessly around the world. Variety compiles the still photographs Goldin created for director Bette Gordon's now infamous 1983 independent film, Variety, and offers a rare glimpse into this artist's symbiotic working process. This work contains the hallmarks of Goldin's early work, while also link to the Lower East Side bohemian milieu from which she often unflinchingly mined her subjects. The book contains all the photographs taken on set and in relation to the film, and will contain observations about the imagery from filmmaker Gordon and Goldin. The Variety still photographs display the influence of filmmaking on Goldin's prolific output and especially the independent directors that helped establish the nascent downtown film scene in the early 1980s. Hovering unsettlingly between fiction and reality, "documentary style" and art photography, Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin reveals a curious and previously unexamined aspect of Goldin's iconic career.This book provides a window into the collision of music, club life and art production that coloured the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and is an important addition to Nan Goldin's published oeuvre.