Annotations — Week 09

Nan Goldin, Middlemarch, Bright Eyes, & Faulkner.

Screaming in the Streets.

Nan Goldin photographed by Alec Soth, 2019

I recently came across a remarkable article in the London Review of Books about Nan Goldin. I’m almost embarrassed to admit how little I knew about her history—especially the story of her sister, Barbara, institutionalized for years before taking her own life at eighteen. Goldin would later dedicate her film Sisters, Saints and Sibyls to Barbara, but her sister’s presence is unmistakable across her entire body of work. Once you know to look for it, you see her everywhere.