It's not always emphasized, given that she's one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of the past 50 years. But Nan Goldin is a movie buff. Big time.
Seeing Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” as a 15-year-old is what made Goldin want to be a photographer in the first place. She thinks of “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" — her signature collection of some 700 unfiltered images of Goldin's life, friends and lovers in early '80s downtown New York — as a film that she continues to edit and reedit. She's long harbored dreams of making a movie, and still does.
