Siobhan in the Shower

1986–1998

Her pictures in other people's films

In “Working Girls” (1986) the photographs attributed to the heroine Molly are Goldin's; in Mary Harron's “I Shot Andy Warhol” (1996) she is credited with “special photography”. The photographs of the heroine of Lisa Cholodenko's “High Art” (1998) are based on her work.

1989

Death of Cookie Mueller

Her close friend and frequent subject Cookie Mueller dies six days before the opening of “Witnesses”. By the 1990s most of the Ballad's subjects, among them Greer Lankton, are dead, lost to drug overdoses or AIDS.

1989

Camera Austria Prize

She receives the Camera Austria Prize for Contemporary Photography in Graz, Austria.

16 November 1989 – 6 January 1990

Curates “Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing”

At Artists Space she invites New York artists to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis; demonstrators protest against censorship outside on opening night. David Wojnarowicz's essay in the catalog draws criticism, and the National Endowment for the Arts withdraws its support for the publication.

1990

Exhibition and book on Cookie Mueller

She exhibits a series of Cibachrome prints of Mueller, and Pace/MacGill publishes the series as a book the same year. Other accounts give 1991 for the show at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York.

1991

Tiffany Foundation award and DAAD residency in Berlin

She receives a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and takes part in the DAAD Artists-in-Residence program in Berlin; the book “The Other Side” (Die andere Seite, 1993) is tied to that program.