Nan as a Dominatrix, Cambridge, MA., 1978 (Artist's Proof).
1978. Vintage cibachrome print (39.5 x 26.75 inches). "By the time of the work of the Boston School, impersonality as the basis for photography gives way to a different model, autobiography; photography is for recording your own life. It is work that argues, by implication, that establishing photography as the site of vision's disembodiment was achieved at a terrible cost, the cost of carnality itself" (Norman Bryson). Captured close to her graduation from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—and her subsequent move to New York City—Nan Goldin's self-portrait as dominatrix remained a relatively obscure image, until her 2018 Spring/Summer collaboration with Supreme blazoned it on skateboards and t-shirts. This artist's proof SIGNED, numbered, and hand-titled by Goldin to label affixed to the verso of her trademark flush-mounted frame (41 x 28.25 inches).
Item #31684
Price: $35,000.00