The Hug

Nan Goldin's body of work The Ballad is a body of work that i find extremely poignant and heartfelt. Her ability to convey the complexities of human relationships and the dependencies men and women place upon each other is amazing. She captures these little moments between people that often go unnoticed and eventually become forgotten. Her work emphasizes the importance of realizing how fleeting life truly is. The Hug shows a couple's moment of complete interlocking, it symbolizes the pull in the relationship. Although we do not know this couple, we feel as though we can almost feel what they were experiencing when the picture was taken. The couple looks "shut off" from the world, as the article says, and the shadow over their heads helps to isolate them as an entity. I enjoyed reading about Nan Goldin's work