The Devil's Playground: 0000

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Looking through a camera placed in people’s houses and rooms to observe the usual moments of their life. Since the mid-1990s, Goldin’s images have become more tender and more infused with light, more about connection than alienation. This is the Special Collectors edition of The Devil's Playground, limited to 100 copies, SIGNED and numbered by Nan Goldin.

This monograph brings to light both the sources of Goldin’s inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist: she is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading photographers. The Devil’s Playground was the first major book to be published on Goldin’s work since 1996 and it is by far her most important to date.Over half of the pictures were created since 2000 and after her move from New York to Paris, where she currently lives. Since the 1980s Goldin's photographs have been exhibited internationally, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museu Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Since the early 1970s, Goldin has taken numerous photographs of her friends and 'family', which form a unique corpus of work. Laid out in diary-like sequences by Goldin herself, the material is both courageously candid and affirmative. Being surrounded by other people while observing such photos seems almost like unacceptable, but I still went through the pictures with awe how interesting the moments captured were and how uncomfortable I was feeling while watching them. There was nothing indicating the feeling of discomfort and ‘the uncanny’ at first, but the more I read through the pictures, the more uncomfortable I felt. At first, the book introduces itself with pictures of ocean and nature in general, which are like the calm before the storm.This book is a special edition of The Devil's Playground that is beautifully bound, signed and numbered. C. in 1953, the artist spent her early childhood in a typical residential neighborhood of the great American suburbs. Format: Cibachrome Sheet size: 406 x 610 mm (16 x 24 inches) Image size: 356 x 533 mm (14 x 21 inches) Box: 689 x 464 mm (27 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches) Condition is new! Goldin's life and friends became the focus of her work - a diary of friends and lovers in Europe and America, in the underground and gay scene.