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Nan Goldin

Vivienne in the Green Dress, NYC

Maker

Nan Goldin (American, b. 1953)

Title

Vivienne in the Green Dress, NYC
"Vivienne at home, NYC"

Year

1980

Medium

  • Color chromogenic print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Color chromogenic print

Materials

chromogenic color print

Dimensions

Image: 49.7 x 33.4 cm (19 9/16 x 13 1/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2003.8

Type

  • Photographs

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 10: Polychrome

Exhibition History

Any distance between us
Jul 17, 2021 – Mar 13, 2022

Label copy

“It was important to me, the way I developed, that I didn’t stay in my nuclear family. It’s also why my friends have always been my family. I mean it’s become a trite kind of statement-‘the chosen family’-but when I first wrote about it in 1985 in the Ballad [of Sexual Dependency] book, it wasn’t trite then. It was still a kind of new notion to people.... They’re the most important to me in the world, my friends. More important than family, lovers, my career.”

-Nan Goldin, 2017

This photograph presents the artist’s longtime friend Vivienne Dick, an Irish filmmaker whom she met in New York in 1978. It is emblematic of Goldin’s candid and unposed views of the lives of her circle of friends, often in the most private settings in their homes.

Facing Artists
Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection
Feb 27, 2009 – Jul 31, 2009

Label copy

Nan Goldin gained international recognition in the 1980s for The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a series of intensely personal color portraits of herself and friends

that was first presented as a slide show in downtown New York clubs and bars. This portrait, also known as Vivienne in the green dress, NYC, depicts the experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick (Irish, born 1950) and appeared among the images in that continually updated autobiographical work. By adopting the snapshot style, Goldin, who thinks of her subjects as family, draws viewers into the intimacy of her relationships.

Photography and Place
Contemporary Works from the Museum's Collection
Jan 23, 2004 – Apr 04, 2004

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Nan Goldin (American, b. 1953)
Vivienne in the Green Dress, NYC; "Vivienne at home, NYC", 1980
Color chromogenic print
Image: 49.7 x 33.4 cm (19 9/16 x 13 1/8 inches)
Walter H. Kimball Fund 2003.8

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