Nan Goldin has documented various photographs of herself, after she freed herself from drugs, she took an image of herself to represent change. As the AIDS epidemic hit she lost many of her friends-who she classed as her family- she confronted the reality of AIDS, trying to 'preserve' her dying friends, to keep them alive by taking photos of them. I think Nan Goldin's way of coping was the power of photography.
'A Self-Portrait in Daylight'
"The party was over but I couldn’t stop.’ As Nan slipped further into addiction, she became isolated, reclusive in her loft for months on end. Drugs, her intended liberation, became an imprisonment. Upon leaving the darkness of her apartment, daylight had to be rediscovered, and it was reclaimed through photography- to relearn, her face through self-portraiture, and then the external world."
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