If the cover of her scratched back had been the signed print....

Take my money.

And a decent image as well. 

So, the tile of the print is ‘Barbara in Mask, Washington D.C., 1953’; and Nan Golden was born in 1953.

Am I to believe she took this picture as an infant?

Barbara in mask, Washington, DC, 1953.

How calmly she behaved that day,
Bought a knife, still had a price tag on it,
Asked when the next Boston Ohio train passed through,
Found a spot, a blind curve.
I was told she lay down and waited
The death-record says she lay
In front of the train
5:38 on an April afternoon.
During cherry blossom season,
On a day pass from a mental hospital,
Some boys saw her,
Tried to help her,
She threatened them with her knife.
Died of multiple injuries sustained,
By being dragged by the train,
And ‘from depression’ reads the death certificate.
She was almost 19.
The conductor came the next morning.
He tried to stop the train.
He quit his job.
When the police came to inform us,
I knew.
A Monday night, dinnertime,
I’d been waiting all my conscious life for this moment
Because I always believed her.
Two officers talked to my father on the lawn alone.
Then he howled, like a wounded animal
On the front lawn.
Inconsolable sounds from beneath the deepest recess of the soul,
Beyond any human sound I’ve heard since, way beyond the sound barrier,
Beyond language or tears tearing into shreds, piercing the air.
Every suicide kills more than one person, they say.
My mother said to the police:
‘Tell the children it was an accident’
Who was she trying to protect?
That was my moment of clarity that defined my life,
My break from my family, I was 11.
The tyranny of revisionism even at the moment of greatest anguish.
Rewrite history immediately before it can be written.


Nan Goldin, 2004. from the exhibition Sisters, Saints and Sibyls, a tribute to her sister Barbara, who took her own life on 12 April 1965.

The photo series Sisters, Saints and Sibyls also forms an integral part of Nan Goldin’s first solo show This Will Not End Well. This exhibition started last year in The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and will be travelling to other museums, including the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (October 2024–March 2025), Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan (October 2025 - February 2026) and Grand Palais, Paris (March - September 2026).

Powerful knowing the backstory. Wasn't aware. Thanks for educating me.

I have about 5 Nan Goldin photos from these benefit album releases, PAIN, Magnum.
Some of my favorite pieces.

And you can always frame the LP, the picture on the back is a beauty.

The power of the forum to sell an old print that's been sitting around for a year.

Prefer other Goldin images tbh.

Awful image - no wonder these sat unsold for a year. Looking forward to watching attempted flippages.

Yeah still waiting too...

I'm in to it but was late seeing the post, so if anyone (eventually) receives it and doesn't like it let me know and I'll buy it

Too bad :-(
I really would have liked to have this one. 

To me after various threats they said that they had shipped two weeks ago, but today still nothing.....