Ivy wearing a fall, Boston
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| Ivy wearing a fall, Boston | |
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 "Ivy wearing a fall, Boston" | |
| Artist | Nan Goldin |
| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Gelatin silver print photograph |
| Dimensions | 50.5 cm × 40.3 cm (19.875 in × 15.875 in) |
| Location | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City |
Ivy wearing a fall, Boston is a 1973 photograph on 35 mm film by the American photographer Nan Goldin. Depicting Goldin’s close friend Ivy with head turned back, it is one of the many black-and-white photographs that Goldin took of her friends between 1972 and 1974. A gelatin silver print measuring 19.875 in x 15.875 in (50.5 cm x 40.3 cm) was purchased by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2002.
Goldin started taking black-and-white photographs as a teenager in Boston, before she moved to New York City in 1978.[1] Goldin had no prior formal education in photography, and she was heavily influenced by fashion photography in French and Vogue Italia, especially Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol’s early films, Federico Fellini, and Larry Clark.[2][3] Her celebratory black-and-white photographs of drag queens prefigure her later signature cibachrome work such as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.[4][5]