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American photographer and activist

Nancy Goldin (born 1953)^[1] is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemianLGBT subcultural communities, especially dealing with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In the slideshow and monograph (1986) Goldin portrayed her chosen "family", meanwhile documenting the post-punk and gay subcultures.

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She is a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) against the opioid epidemic.^[2] She lives and works in New York City.^[3][4]

Early life

Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1953^[5] to middle-class Jewish parents, and grew up in the Boston suburb of Swampscott, moving to Lexington in her teens.

Goldin's father worked in broadcasting and served as the chief econo