Cookie at the restaurant, Positano
(1986)
- Medium
- cibachrome photograph
- Measurements
- 40.0 × 59.5 cm (image and sheet)
- Edition
- artist's proof 1
- Accession Number
- 2022.18
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2022
© Nan Goldin, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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‘I used to think I couldn’t lose anyone if I photographed them enough.’ – Nan Goldin
From the 1970s, Nan Goldin began to photograph the people she was close to, with an intimate and informal eye. After graduating with a fine arts degree from Boston’s Tufts University in 1978, she moved to New York. There she presented the first of many slideshows of her photographs: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency presentation eventually grew into a 45-minute multimedia presentation of over nine hundred images, accompanied by music. This image shows Goldin’s close friend, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller, whom she photographed from 1976 until Mueller’s death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1989.