BERLIN.- Nan Goldin’s photographs are pictures of her life. Their unending wealth and shimmering colours show Goldin’s “family” – her friends, acquaintances, lovers. After leaving her parents’ house at the age of 14, she became part of a subcultural scene of drag queens, transvestites and homosexuals, first in Boston and then in New York’s Lower East Side from 1978 onwards. In 1991 she came to Berlin for one year on a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and remained here, with only brief interruptions, until 1994. Since then, she has been returning to the city repeatedly. The exhibition NAN GOLDIN – BERLIN WORK by the State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture presents 80 selected photographic works produced in Berlin between 1984 and 2009, as well as previously unpublished archive material from the artist’s own collection. Two tableaux of wo