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The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date. While looking at the pictures, I wanted to almost identify myself with the voyuer, wanting to see what I see in private. She has since lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that represents an often disconcertingly seductive photographic portrait of our time. People are portrayed always with empathy both indoors and outdoors as they blend into and lose themselves in their surrounding landscape, while at the same time the landscape becomes personal and intimate, almost portraiture.

The mysteryof loss, the depth of feelings it arouses, as well as the spiritual longing it triggers, are also expressed through powerful images of relics, ex-voto and religious images ( Skulls and Tears, Chapel of Salpétrière, Paris, 1999; Masectomy ex-voto, Madonna dell’Arco, Somma Vesuviana, 1996).

Since the mid-1990s, Goldin’s images have become more tender and more infused with light, more about connection than alienation. However, in the postmodern era of the society of spectacle, it increasingly has become a technique for inventing a parallel reality, a fiction, or a simulacrum. She documents life as lived … It is fitting that the sequencing, which was laid out by Goldin herself, feels distinctly diary-esque: the profound insights often to be found in a seemingly abstract moment. It also presents over three hundred prints of photographs taken since the 1970s, with a particular attention towards her recent works.

Jens' Hand on Clemen's Back,Paris2001" by Nan Goldin is a large format silkscreen limited print edition of 100. This multimedia work is made up of more than seven hundred slides projected and accompanied by musical passages that serve as the narrative voice.These 500 pages of beautifully reproduced colour pictures constitute a moving soulful and surprisingly optimistic record of the work of a genius. We see them sleeping, dancing, showering, making love, together at parties, waiting, crying, nursing, on the beach, in the pool, in bars, in hotel rooms. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager, Sofortversand - - The most significant book published to date on Nan Goldin (b.