There is a big different between the “high art” in Louvre collection and Goldin’s contemporary photographs. To start with, the Louvre collection is more artistic, she concentrates more on sculptures, designs, photo backgrounds, for example; “Cupid with his Wings on Fire.” However, her contemporary photographs are a lot different. They are more realistic. Her photographs are more sensual, intimate, even sexual at times. These are photographs of her close friends, some with HIV, some transvestites that she met around where she used to live. There are many pictures that have never been shown by Goldin, because she said that “it became a work about love.” Nonetheless, she said that she would show those pictures to the world, and that she is very happy about it because “they’ve been painful to hide for many years.”
