(b. 1953 - Washington DC) is a renowned photographer who has been documenting her life for more than thirty years, collecting images of her close friends and acquaintances. Johanna Burton of Time Out describes, "Artists, musicians and drifters shared the microcosm of Goldin's world: shooting up, drinking, sleeping, showering, fighting, having sex and sometimes dying--Goldin's subjects performed their hyperbolic life-as-usual for her omnipresent camera." In her most recent body of work titled, "Heartbeat," Goldin tracks the intimate relations of five couples, along with melancholic landscapes and this self potrait. In this series, the artist is more peripheral to the relationships and desire she depicts than in her earlier work where the boundaries between artist and subject were blurred. Burton states, "Her more recent work is compelling for the trace of genuine loneliness that's taken up residence there." Goldin earned a BFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1977. She has exhibited her work around the world, including several major exhibitions at museums in the US and in Europe, such as "I'll be Your Mirror," and "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency." 2003.090