Nan Goldin: ‘Die andere Seite 1972-1992’

Nan Goldin: ‘Die andere Seite 1972-1992′

Hardcover. Published by Zürich, Scalo, 1992

by Nan Goldin (Author) GERMAN text. Collectors’ Item.
 
Asking USD$250.
 
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Very Good
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover / Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
  • Publisher Scalo, Berlin, Zurich, New York
  • Date Published 1992
 
Nan Goldin’s seminal second book The Other Side is finally back in print. Ever since the early 1970’s Goldin has lived with and among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed her a way out of the captivity of pre-packaged, socially prescribed identity. As she put it: “The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria….
 
The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners in the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.” In contrast to much of the early 90’s drag queen mania, The Other Side has brilliantly passed the test of time: Goldin’s photographs are as beautiful, moving, and vibrant as ever, heralding the utopian promises of a world where gender has stopped being a prison-a vision that remains as vital and acute as it was when the book was first published.
 
 
“This book was originally published on the occasion of the show NAN GOLDIN 1972-1992 at the daad Gallery, Berlin, Oct.-Nov. 1992.” Ever since the early 1970’s Goldin has lived with and among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed her a way out of the captivity of pre-packaged, socially prescribed identity. As she put it: “The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria…. The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners in the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.” 142 p. : chiefly col. illustrations ; 28 cm. Limited text (Goldin’s original preface, and credits, in Japanese.

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