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Nan Goldin, The Other Side, Cornerhouse 1993\r\n\r\nNan Goldin began taking photographs in her late teens, creating a visual diary of her life and the lives of her friends. Personal relationships is a running theme in most of Goldin’s work from the past twenty years and many of her published photographs focus on sexual identity. The relationship between the photographer and subject is clear in her photographs; she neither glamorises nor exploits them.  Rather, she captures them undertaking ordinary, everday acts, both private and social. \r\n\r\nGoldin’s earliest photographs were taken whilst she was still a student in Boston. She photographed a group of drag queens who grew to become some of her closest friends. Over twenty years later in New York, Goldin revisited the subject and began documenting the lives of a group of transvestites, but this time in colour. This snapshot of drag queen Misty, reveals Goldin’s signature style and informal approach to photography. \r\n","physicalDescription":"A colour photograph depicting the drag queen Misty (Miss Demeanor) and Joey at Hornstrasse, Berlin. Misty, who is visible in the foreground, is wearing a cropped blue wig and black dress. 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It began in the late 1970s and was originally conceived in the early 1980s as a 45-minute slide show accompanied by a rock soundtrack. It has evolved over the years to include over 700 photographs, which capture the intimate, everyday lives of Goldin’s “tribe”. Goldin has described the Ballad as the product of remembrance; a way for her to recall her friendships with those now lost to drug addiction and the HIV epidemic.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Nan Goldin, 'Misty and Joey at Hornstrasse', dye destruction print, printed 1992, published 1996","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1997</u>"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Berlin","id":"x28746"},{"text":"","id":""}],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Demeanor, Miss","id":"AUTH352812"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"drag queen","id":"THES266880"},{"text":"drag","id":"x33812"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.53-1997"],"accessionNumberNum":"53","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1997,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-14","recordCreationDate":"2003-07-25","availableToBook":false}}