Joey in my mirror, 2002

"My work derives from the snapshot. It is the form of photography that most closely stands for love." – Nan Goldin

Every one of Goldin's photographs is like a window opening on a labyrinthine body of stories – some happy, some tragic. Her work is documentary in the best sense: it hews close to the world she knows, but also indulges in the self-dramatization and pathos that together constitute a post-modern version of Romanticism. Nan Goldin's photographs have become touchstones of the contemporary visual imagination, avidly collected all over the world and assimilated into the mainstream.