Who Is Nan Goldin?

Im still on my research stage of this project and wanted to look into more closely at current famous photographers around the world.
Knowing not one name of another photographer I took the first name my tutor told me about Nan Golding, and started looking into her work.

Goldin was born In Washington, D.C, USA in 1953, her first experience with a camera was when she was fifteen by her teacher who gave her class Polaroid cameras to play around with.
In the early 1970's she started taking photos of her friends in the transvestite community of Boston.
In 1977 she received a B.F.A. from Tufts University and in 1978 received a 5th year certificate.
During her school years she began to use Clibachrome prints.

She then moved to new york, a setting for many of her most famous photographs, she was taking photos of the punk rock scene that was taking place. These photographs later became grouped in a famous series of her photographs titled The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980–86). These photographs documented drug addiction, abusive couples and intimate details of Goldin's life.
This series managed to get Goldin work shown at the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of America (1985) which Established Goldin as a major photographer.

She has had work shown at the...

Edinburgh and Berlin film festivals,
Guggenheim Museum, New York City,
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio,
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway,
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy,
Centre Pompidou, Paris,
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland,
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands,
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague,
Harn Museum at the University of Florida,
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts,
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK,
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest,
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece,
New York University Library,
Tate Gallery, London, UK,
The Jewish Museum, New York City,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

Below are some of Goldin's pictures taken from the Guggenheim Museum website. (http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_192_0.html)