Simon and Jessica in the shower,Paris 2001
Cibachrome
Photographer: Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin was born September 12, 1953. She is an American fine-art and documentary photographer. It is interesting to see that her first solo show was based on her photographic journey amongst the city's gay and transsexual community, which was held in Boston 1973. This shows that she is open-minded.
Nan Goldin's work since 1995 has included a wide array of subject matters. She has images that expresses and intensifies love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens, sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. With the collaboration of Nobuyoshi Araki, they composed a book project, this project includes; New York City skylines, uncanny landscapes (notably of people in water), her lover, Siobhan, babies, parenthood and family life.
I chose the above picture because it was rather interesting in many ways. I feel it expresses a lot of love and passion; this expression has been conveyed by the positioning of the man’s hand in the woman hair and the body posture on the woman and her arms around her lover.
There is little fear being portrayed by the two characters in this image as one would think making love in a bath tub is quite the risky business considering the possibility of slipping and falling. It tells me a baby is going to come out of this moment. Nan Goldin has managed to compose a perfect frame of what she felt was important for the viewer, and the mood also gives the photograph an attractive feel to it.
