{"id":2126010,"date":"2026-09-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2126010"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:00:00","slug":"nan-goldin-photographs-30th-anniversary-campaign-for-acne-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2126010","title":{"rendered":"Nan Goldin Photographs 30th Anniversary Campaign for Acne Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Acne-Studios_FW26-Campaign_8.jpg?w=1024″]<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\n\tAcclaimed photographer and activist Nan Goldin shot an ad campaign for Acne Studios to mark the Swedish fashion brand\u2019s 30th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the campaign, Goldin photographed \u201cthe people in [Acne\u2019s] creative family,\u201d according to the brand. The people in her pictures were \u201cchosen to capture Acne Studios\u2019 founding spirit: one of free expression, creative experimentation and proud individuality,\u201d a nod to the company\u2019s former acronym which stood for \u201cAmbition to Create Novel Expressions,\u201d per a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have been inspired by Nan and her work for years,\u201d Acne cofounder and creative director Jonny Johansson said in a statement. \u201cSo, when we realized we had 30 years to celebrate, it felt like the right moment to ask her. I wanted an icon, but I also wanted something very intimate and personal. She does that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGoldin\u2019s sitters include artists Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Peter Schlesinger, and Sandra Poulson, as well as actor and musician Juliette Lewis, musician Ellie Rowsell, model and photographer Guinevere Van Seenus, photographer Jordan Hemingway, actor and model Raya Martigny, and actor Rila Fukushima. The release also teased one more image of\u00a0\u201canother friend whose portrait will be revealed at a later date.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe subjects are people from our universe \u2013 individuals we have collaborated with, spoken to, or had some kind of exchange with over the years. I wanted friends, not models,\u201d Johansson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\"Sandra<\/div>\n<\/div>
Sandra Poulson poses for Nan Goldin as part of the 30th anniversary campaign of Acne Studios.<\/span>\u00a9Nan Goldin\/Courtesy the artist and Acne Studios<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThey have been photographed wearing denim, which Acne described as \u201cthe brand\u2019s foundational material.\u201d When Acne was founded in 1996, Johansson and his cofounders gifted 100 pairs of raw denim jeans (with red stitching on the seams) to their circle of artists and creatives.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the fabric choice, Johansson said, \u201cDenim is the perfect canvas. We\u2019re rooted in it. It\u2019s a material of today that also ages and becomes something else through its story. Denim personalises itself through wear \u2013 it becomes yours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDenim is part of my everyday wear inside the studio, or out for dinner,\u201d said Chase, who created the runway set for the house\u2019s Spring\/Summer 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week. \u201cI love its multifaceted materiality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\"Peter<\/div>\n<\/div>
Peter Schlesinger poses for Nan Goldin as part of the 30th anniversary campaign of Acne Studios.<\/span>\u00a9Nan Goldin\/Courtesy the artist and Acne Studios<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tGoldin has long partnered with a range of fashion brands, including RVCA (in 2010), Rodarte (2012), Medea (2018), Supreme (2018), and Gucci (2024).\u00a0The Gucci collaboration involved Goldin photographing an ad campaign that featured musicians Debbie Harry and Kelsey Lu. She subsequently showed those six photographs at Gagosian; each image had an edition of seven with prices starting at $28,000 for a print.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoldin is equally known for her images, most notably The Ballad of Sexual Dependency<\/em> (1985), and her activism. She founded the advocacy group P.A.I.N. in 2017 as a way to fight the opioid crisis, which she personally survived, and to call attention to how the Sackler family made money from it. She and her group staged various protests in museums to call attention to how the Sacklers had \u201cwashed their blood money through the halls of museums and universities around the world,\u201d as she wrote in Artforum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also has become one of the most vocal art world supporters of Palestine, memorably giving a speech at the opening of her exhibition at Berlin\u2019s Neue Nationalgalerie in 2024 in which she labeled Israel\u2019s war in Gaza a genocide. She gave a similar talk in Arles, France, in 2025. Last fall, she told Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil that \u201cmy career tanked\u2014my market tanked from one day to the next because of my support of Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/nan-goldin-acne-studios-30th-anniversary-campaign-1234796847\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Acne-Studios_FW26-Campaign_8.jpg?w=1024″] Acclaimed photographer and activist Nan Goldin shot an ad campaign for Acne Studios to mark the Swedish fashion brand\u2019s 30th anniversary.\u00a0 For the campaign, Goldin photographed \u201cthe people in [Acne\u2019s] creative family,\u201d according to the brand. The people in her pictures were \u201cchosen to capture Acne Studios\u2019 founding spirit: one of free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2126010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2126010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}