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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

Nan Goldin turns her camera onto art history, and the results are an inspiration for any photographer wishing to reinvent themselves

Triptych showing a nude figure bathing in two contemporary photographs flanking a classical painting of a crouched bather.

Nan Goldin made her name capturing people in bedrooms and bathrooms, with harsh on-camera flash and unflinching honesty. But when her next exhibition opens at the Hayward Gallery this November, it won't center around the kind of intimate documentary work she's known for.

Titled You Never Did Anything Wrong, the new show sees Goldin turn her camera towards classical sculpture, old master paintings and elaborate still-lifes; fusing her snapshot aesthetic with centuries of art history. And for some of her followers, this might come as a bit of a shock.

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