A new documentary 'All The Beauty and the Bloodshed' tells the story of Nan Goldin, a photographer and activist who survived opioid addiction — then challenged members of the Sackler family.
Photographer Nan Goldin poses after being awarded Commander in the Arts and Letters Order, in Paris, June 27, 2006., I saw her rage and frustration over the prescription opioid epidemic that derailed her life and killed tens of thousands of Americans.She was talking about members of the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin.Goldin herself became addicted to pain pills after surgery.
"Photography was always a way to walk through fear," Goldin says in the documentary."It gave me a reason to be there." The Sackler family, meanwhile, was growing fabulously wealthy, first by selling Valium and then aggressively marketing Oxycontin. The collision between the Sacklers and Goldin portrayed in this film came after Goldin's recovery from years of opioid addiction, a time she describes as"a darkness of the soul."groundbreaking article in The New Yorker"All the museums and institutions need to stop taking money from these corrupt evil bastards," Goldin says in the documentary, as she helps organize one of the opioid protests that rocked the art world over the last five years.
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