I love a good documentary, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is great not only a doco but also a doco on Nan Goldin.
It shows many of her icon images and goes over her fight for the Shakler Family and their role in the US Opioid Crisis.
Unknown to me Nan had an opioid problem from a wrist injury and had to go to rehab and use medication to subdue the effects of withdrawal.
The images that are shown are sublime and show her work in great detail. There are many images of her iconic slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” of which I am lucky enough to own a copy and to have also seen the print images at NGA (which can be seen there till Late January. In that show, Nan explores her ‘tribe’.
Nan’s storytelling of her life through the doco is great and we come to be that little closer to her and understand the struggles that make her photos what they are.
Anyway, a good doco and it is available on iTunes movies.
Remember to LOVE LIFE!!