help me name the photographer!!

red_ice · 10-12-2011 4:22pm #1

Im writing a workbook for college and there is a certain photographer that I am trying to remember the name of and for the life of me I cant. I could wait untill monday and ask my lecturer, its just I'm writing now and I have a workflow going.

I had a heated discussion about this photographer with my lecturer because I didnt like her work, I fobbed it off as being thoughtless snaps. Published images that look like she was just trying to end a roll of film so she could get the real stuff printed. My lecturer gave me a copy of her published works to take home and read which I did, and I was blown away. It stands that seeing a full body of work really does help understand the exact points that I didnt like about the work!! The book in question is not being published anymore to the best of my knowledge.

The stuff I remember... The main body of the work is from around 1980 - 1995 (roughly). Photographs include some pretty strong material, such as the photographer on top of a man in cowboy boots with his fingers adventuring around...

I have another image of a chap in his late twenties slapping a bigger woman in her 50's in the arse as she bends over to talk to an older man sitting in an armchair.

There are a series of images that she took of skinheads in london. One of them is a skinhead skanking, another was of a couple of skin heads sitting around... Another is one asleep on an armchair with a bottle of jack daniels.

There is also a portrait of her friend sitting against the wall of a newyork rooftop.

There is a self portrait of her with a black eye. She has a curly 80's perm.

Sorry this is vague, but its all I can think of. I will bang my head against the wall untill i remember the name.

Cheers

xshayx · 10-12-2011 4:45pm

Nan Goldin?

red_ice · 10-12-2011 4:47pm

we have a winner.

im going to proceed with curling up into a fetal position and crying in a corner.

Thanks for that.

On a side note, what do you think of Nan Goldin's work?