The Devils Playground - Valerie in the Taxi

Goldin, Nan

Code: 2234

ISBN: 9780714844220

Publisher: Phaidon Press

New Print First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £1039

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Valerie in the taxi, Paris, 2001 Cibachrome print Sheet size: 406 x 610 mm, 16 x 24 inches Image size: 356 x 533mm, 14 x 21 inches Printed in 2004 in an edition of 100 plus 5 artist's proofs All copies signed and numbered by Nan Goldin ISBN: 0 7148 4422 5 The Devil's Playground by Nan Goldin Collector's Edition Price does not include shipping which is extra and charged at cost. The Devil's Playground presents a major collection of photographs by Nan Goldin. Since the 1980s Nan Goldin has consistently created photographs which are intimate and compelling - they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, but simultaneously chronicle different eras and the passage of time. This book features a significant body of new work by Goldin, including photographs from series such as Still on Earth (1997-2001), 57 Days (2000) and Elements (1995-2003), many of which are previously unpublished. Laid out in sequences by Goldin herself, like a diary, the material is both courageously candid and affirmative. The photographs are grouped into themed chapters and between these are interspersed a number of texts, poems and lyrics by prominent writers - including Nick Cave, Catherine Lampert, Cookie Mueller and Richard Price. The Devil's Playground is the first major book to be published on Goldin's work since 1996 and is her most significant to-date. It brings to light the source of Goldin's inspiration and her life as a prominent contemporary artist. Nan Goldin is internationally recognized as one of the world's most prominent and influential contemporary photographers. Born in Washington DC, Goldin grew up in Boston where she began taking photographs at the age of fifteen. Since then, she has lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that serves as an intimate and compelling portrait of our time. Although intensely diaristic, Goldin's work point to such universal themes as sex, love, friendship and identity. Author Nan Goldin Binding Custom Cloth-Bound Extent 504 pp Illustrations 343 col, illus. Size 300 x 225 mm, 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches Box Size 465 x 687 x 85 mm, 18 1/4 x 27 x 3 3/8 inches