Nan Goldin
Joey in My Mirror, Berlin

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Artist Nan Goldin (American, born 1953)American, born 1953

CultureAmerican

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Joey in My Mirror, Berlin

Date1992

Place depictedBerlin, Germany

MediumSilver dye bleach print

DimensionsImage: 16 1/4 × 24 1/8 in. (41.3 × 61.2 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 24 5/8 in. (42.5 × 62.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Michael Zilkha

Object number99.565

Not on view

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionGoldin’s
signature work and one of the key monuments of 1980s art, The Ballad of
Sexual Dependency tracks the artist’s life in the subcultures of the music
and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, the post-Stonewall gay world and
AIDS crisis, and the drug culture sometimes referred to as “heroin chic.” It is
fitting that her images from that work—direct reflections of her life and
experience—often include mirrors. Goldin’s photographic oeuvre has been highly
influential, giving birth to a diaristic and confessional strain of photography
that has been widely embraced by contemporary photographers.
ProvenanceThe artist; [U.S. Tibet Committee, Politics & Faith - Tibet's Hope for Freedom, benefit auction, June 10, 1997, lot 27]; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston, June 10, 1997; given to MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition History"Contemporary Art and Photography: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Upper Brown Pavilion, 30 September 2001 - 3 February 2002.

"Nan Goldin: Stories Retold," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 18 November 2007 - 30 March 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in black, verso, upper right: NG.270
Signed in black, verso, lower right: Joey in my mirror at Hornstr., Berlin . 1992 // Nan Goldin // #1/25

Signed in black, verso, lower right: Nan Goldin

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