Nan GoldinAmerican, 1953Untitled (boots)
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Untitled (boots)” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- P2003.120
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
In the life of Nan Goldin
The whole life1970s
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
She enrolls at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts together with her friend from Satya, David Armstrong; there she meets Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Mark Morrisroe and begins to photograph in color. She graduates in 1977 or 1978: she has worked mostly with Cibachrome prints but has also begun showing slides, and her work of this period is associated with the Boston School of Photography.
1973
First solo show in Boston
The show is built on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transgender communities, to which her friend David Armstrong introduced her. Among her work of the period is “Ivy wearing a fall, Boston”.
late 1970s
Move to New York
After graduating she moves to New York and begins documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene and the city's vibrant post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
late 1970s
Her subjects take shape
By the end of the 1970s her circle of subjects takes shape: domestic sketches with her boyfriend Brian, drug-addicted friends, cross-dressers, the New York bohemia. Her themes — sexual assertiveness and confession — are tied to gender, provocation and the new realism.
