{"id":148810,"date":"2022-12-05T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/in-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-nan-goldin-takes-on-the-sacklers-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:08:11","slug":"in-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-nan-goldin-takes-on-the-sacklers-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/in-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-nan-goldin-takes-on-the-sacklers-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"In ‘All The Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ Nan Goldin takes on the Sacklers : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photographer Nan Goldin poses after being awarded Commander in the Arts and Letters Order, in Paris, June 27, 2006.<\/p>\n

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The first couple times I talked with photographer Nan Goldin, I saw her rage and frustration over the prescription opioid epidemic that derailed her life and killed tens of thousands of Americans.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve never seen such an abuse of justice,” Goldin told me.<\/p>\n

She was talking about members of the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin.<\/p>\n

Goldin herself became addicted to pain pills after surgery. She later came to believe the Sacklers lied about their drug’s safety and were unlikely to be held accountable.<\/p>\n

“It’s shocking. It’s really shocking. I’ve been deeply depressed and horrified,” she said.<\/p>\n

What I missed in those encounters with Goldin \u2014 hidden behind the chain smoking and the weary laugh \u2014 was the power, stubbornness and battle-hardened courage that helped her take on the Sacklers.<\/p>\n

That’s the revelation in the new documentary about Goldin, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed<\/em>, out now in limited release. It won the Gold Lion for best film this year at the Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The film by Laura Poitras shows Goldin growing up in an abusive family, surviving foster care and living homeless in New York City.<\/p>\n