Nan Goldin was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. At a young age her older sister committed suicide and she was forced to cope. In high school she was introduced to photography and focused her first show on homosexual and transsexual communities. Goldin began to photograph images that expressed violence and showed drug abuse. Her subjects usually past away due to their addictions. She focused her art on a culture of obsession. Goldin also photographed love, sex, and the multiple ways they can be expressed. Her artwork was often criticized but was in fact reality.
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