The American photographer Nan Goldin has not had an easy life. Growing up in 1950s suburbia, she was a witness to her sister Barbara’s severe mental health struggle, her brutal institutionalisation, and eventual suicide at the age of eighteen. Goldin took up drugs and began dating a much older man. She left home at merely fourteen and after a spell in foster care, became a regular on Boston’s underground scene of homosexuals and drag queens.
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