Choose a photograph. Type in your response.

  • Select one image and describe what it seems to express about the person shown.

  • Do you think the artist is telling the truth about him- or herself?

  • If you created a self-portrait, what would you want it to convey?





Nan Goldin, Self-portrait with milagro, The Lodge, Belmont, MA, 1988. Silver dye bleach print, 27 1/4 x 40 inches (69.2 x 101.6 cm), edition 8/25. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Mr. Gerard Cohen 2003.2