Publisher/Du Regard

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"Soeurs, Saintes et Sibylles" is a collection of works by Nan Goldin (1953-), one of the most representative American female photographers of the 20th century. Goldin has sensitively depicted conflicts with family and society in her photographs, and this book is a collection of her works published on the occasion of an exhibition held in Paris in 2004. It begins with the story of her older sister, Barbara. She was considered rebellious from an early age, and was repeatedly admitted to and discharged from many psychiatric hospitals, eventually jumping in front of a train to take her own life. The book then continues with her own autobiographical content, including her experience of being hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for drug addiction and depression. In addition, the legend of Saint Barbara, an anecdote about her being locked in a tower by her father, who was decapitated as a result of her persisting in her faith, but her father was finally punished by lightning, is also woven into the text. The story of the sisters is superimposed with biblical and mythological imagery, and is sublimated into questions of women, sexuality, self-expression, and liberation from captivity. The book is beautifully designed in a style similar to a personal novel, with the text in French.