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Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Elvis Presley's watch and John Lennon's suit fetch big bucks at Goldin auction
Elvis Presley's worn Omega wristwatch, gifted to him by Johnny Cash, sold for $103,700 this week. Goldin, a leading sports and pop culture memorabilia auction house, sold the engraved timepiece as part of its inaugural music memorabilia auction, which closed Wednesday night. Other high-selling items included a D.A. Millings & Son custom suit worn by John Lennon in 1963 ($102,480), a signed copy of Led Zeppelin's album 'Presence' ($19,520) and George Harrison's sunglasses ($47,590). Goldin also set a new sale record for a type 1 photo — or photo developed from an original negative within two years of when the picture was taken— of rapper Tupac Shakur, which sold for $10,370, according to the auction house. Though sports and trading card auctions are Goldin's 'bread and butter,' the company is venturing more into pop culture, said head of revenue Dave Amerman. This transition is documented in Goldin's Netflix show, 'King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch,' which premiered in 2023 and was just renewed for a third season. 'We realized that we get so many music items and we build them into our pop culture sales, we just want to separate it and make its own event out of it,' Amerman told The Times. Many of the Beatles items belonged to music promoter Chris Agajanian, who's been building his collection for more than 40 years. Agajanian owns more than 2,000 pieces of Beatles memorabilia and signed letters of provenance for many of the items in the Goldin sale. The music auction also included more than 500 concert posters graded by the Certified Guaranty Company, the leader in comic book grading. Poster subjects ranged from the Grateful Dead and the Beatles to Sonic Youth and Blink-182. In 2020, Goldin sold one of the most expensive albums of all time: a copy of Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'Double Fantasy' that Lennon unwittingly signed for his assassin, Mark David Chapman, just before the Beatle was shot in 1980. It went for $900,000. Additionally, the auction house holds the record for most expensive toy sold at an auction: a 1979 prototype action figure of 'Star Wars' bounty hunter Boba Fett that went for more than $1 million in 2024. Goldin's Hollywood Props & Memorabilia auction, featuring Harrison Ford's 'Indiana Jones' whip, a 'Star Wars' Stormtrooper prototype helmet and George Reeves' 'Superman' suit, is currently live. The auction closes Aug. 6.
Sydney Morning Herald
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Goldin age: Stunning '80s exhibition that anticipated the selfie opens in Perth
'To be considered a serious artist you needed to have objectivity. You had to maintain distance from your subject. Goldin broke through that barrier.' 'Goldin also made no attempt to glamorise her subjects. 'Look at the shot of Suzanne crying. She does not make her pose attractively or bathe her in beautiful light. Goldin shoots her with a basic 35mm camera with a flash, giving it a harshness. She was going beyond artifice to record the reality of the moment.' While there were precedents to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency work, such as Larry Clark's 1971 autobiographical work Tulsa, O'Hehir believes Clark's documenting of teen life in Oklahoma does not go as far as Goldin, who was living and loving with her tribe. 'Whenever you bring a camera into a situation things change. But because Goldin was with these people all the time they let down their barriers,' O'Hehir says. 'You can't pose forever. She would shoot people making love or in bathrooms or on the toilet, which is not something you would have seen in photographs during that era.' While Goldin's work is celebrated for its immediacy and avoidance of artifice, the breathtaking Cibachrome prints owned by the National Portrait Gallery reveal her to be a much more considered artist for which she is given credit. They are eye-poppingly saturated, artfully framed and arranged or, more accurately, edited to the story of the life and times of Goldin and her friends, which she says were more important than her real family and, indeed, her photography. 'Goldin's work is famous for its casualness. They are called snapshots, which links them to family photos that we all have in our albums,' O'Hehir says. 'But she has an astonishing grasp of visual language and is an incredible image-maker. She studied the history of painting, she had a deep understanding of cinema, which is a major influence on her work. Loading 'To see these images in this form is a revelation. They shimmer. Even if you think you know the work through books or on the screen you will get a shock.' O'Hehir says the key set of pictures within the collection centre on the violence Goldin suffered at the hand of her boyfriend Brian, who went for her eyes and burned her diaries. While Goldin's place in the history of photography is secure, she is today most well-known for her activism, a transformation documented in Laura Poitras's 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. In the film, fiery former heroin addict Goldin goes to war against the company at the heart of the opioid crisis, Perdue Pharma, that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Goldin had become addicted to Perdue Pharma's signature product OxyContin after an injury to her wrist in 2014. She said it took her some time to become addicted to heroin; with Oxy Contin she was hooked after just 48 hours and popping 15 pills a day, describing it as 'scarily addictive'. Goldin hit the headlines again in November when she gave a speech at the opening of her show in Berlin in which attacked Germans for conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. 'If an artist in my position is allowed to express their political stance without being cancelled, I hope I will be paving the way for other artists to speak out without being censored,' said Goldin, whose speech triggered pro-Palestinian chants in the gallery and was condemned by German politicans. While activism has moved into the centre of the life of the 71-year-old photographer, Goldin previously said that politics was very much evident in The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. 'When I first began I wasn't making political art. Politics was my art,' said Goldin in a lecture at the Lincoln Center, going on to remind the audience that the work was first shown in clubs and bars with a soundtrack before being displayed in galleries and museums.
The Age
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The Goldin age: Stunning '80s exhibition that anticipated the selfie opens in Perth
'To be considered a serious artist you needed to have objectivity. You had to maintain distance from your subject. Goldin broke through that barrier.' 'Goldin also made no attempt to glamorise her subjects. 'Look at the shot of Suzanne crying. She does not make her pose attractively or bathe her in beautiful light. Goldin shoots her with a basic 35mm camera with a flash, giving it a harshness. She was going beyond artifice to record the reality of the moment.' While there were precedents to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency work, such as Larry Clark's 1971 autobiographical work Tulsa, O'Hehir believes Clark's documenting of teen life in Oklahoma does not go as far as Goldin, who was living and loving with her tribe. 'Whenever you bring a camera into a situation things change. But because Goldin was with these people all the time they let down their barriers,' O'Hehir says. 'You can't pose forever. She would shoot people making love or in bathrooms or on the toilet, which is not something you would have seen in photographs during that era.' While Goldin's work is celebrated for its immediacy and avoidance of artifice, the breathtaking Cibachrome prints owned by the National Portrait Gallery reveal her to be a much more considered artist for which she is given credit. They are eye-poppingly saturated, artfully framed and arranged or, more accurately, edited to the story of the life and times of Goldin and her friends, which she says were more important than her real family and, indeed, her photography. 'Goldin's work is famous for its casualness. They are called snapshots, which links them to family photos that we all have in our albums,' O'Hehir says. 'But she has an astonishing grasp of visual language and is an incredible image-maker. She studied the history of painting, she had a deep understanding of cinema, which is a major influence on her work. Loading 'To see these images in this form is a revelation. They shimmer. Even if you think you know the work through books or on the screen you will get a shock.' O'Hehir says the key set of pictures within the collection centre on the violence Goldin suffered at the hand of her boyfriend Brian, who went for her eyes and burned her diaries. While Goldin's place in the history of photography is secure, she is today most well-known for her activism, a transformation documented in Laura Poitras's 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. In the film, fiery former heroin addict Goldin goes to war against the company at the heart of the opioid crisis, Perdue Pharma, that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Goldin had become addicted to Perdue Pharma's signature product OxyContin after an injury to her wrist in 2014. She said it took her some time to become addicted to heroin; with Oxy Contin she was hooked after just 48 hours and popping 15 pills a day, describing it as 'scarily addictive'. Goldin hit the headlines again in November when she gave a speech at the opening of her show in Berlin in which attacked Germans for conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. 'If an artist in my position is allowed to express their political stance without being cancelled, I hope I will be paving the way for other artists to speak out without being censored,' said Goldin, whose speech triggered pro-Palestinian chants in the gallery and was condemned by German politicans. While activism has moved into the centre of the life of the 71-year-old photographer, Goldin previously said that politics was very much evident in The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. 'When I first began I wasn't making political art. Politics was my art,' said Goldin in a lecture at the Lincoln Center, going on to remind the audience that the work was first shown in clubs and bars with a soundtrack before being displayed in galleries and museums.
LeMonde
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
Nan Goldin confronts Arles photo festival audience about Gaza war: '75,000 Palestinians have been killed'
An activist and rebel at heart since her beginnings in the 1970s, when she photographed her friends from New York's underground scene, Nan Goldin has remained true to her reputation. On Tuesday, July 8, before a packed Théâtre Antique, the American photographer, known for her activism against AIDS and the devastation caused by opioid addiction, used the opening night of the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in southern France to condemn Israel's war in Gaza. The evening began on a poetic note, with two tightrope walkers from the Gratte Ciel company suspended in front of the massive screen where photographs exhibited at the festival were projected. Nearly 2,500 people, seated all the way up to the stage, had reserved their seats, drawn by the presence of Goldin, the winner of the Women in Motion award, which honors women photographers. "I got the Women in Motion award even though I can barely walk!" joked the 71-year-old photographer, a regular at the festival. In 1987, it was at the Théâtre Antique that her most famous work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a raw look into the artist's private life and that of her friends, was shown for the first time in Europe and found its definitive form.
USA Today
10-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Ilia Topuria's one-of-one UFC rookie card sets all-time high sale
A post shared by Goldin (@goldinco) Ilia Topuria's impact is being felt in the world of collectibles. Topuria (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC), who won a UFC title in a second division by knocking out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317, has seen his star power steadily rise to new heights. Arguably, he's the biggest star in the UFC today, which means his hype in the trading card world is on fire. As Topuria continues to forge an undeniable path as a superstar in the UFC, his trading cards are becoming the hottest thing going. The most significant UFC card sales pale in comparison to those of baseball, basketball or football, but Topuria's name is helping to raise the value of MMA cards. Not only does Topuria have an undefeated record and titles in two UFC divisions, but he also now has the highest UFC trading card sale on record at six figures. Wednesday, Goldin Auctions, a high-end collectible marketplace, announced that a private sale has been completed for Ilia Topuria's one-of-one Black Prizm rookie card from the 2022 Panini Prizm UFC set. The card was graded a mint 9 by PSA, the world's leading trading card grading company. Goldin consigned the sale. The total? A smooth $101,000. The previous high was a Khabib Nurmagomedov one-of-one from the 2014 Topps UFC Knockout Autographs set, which sold for $79,200 in May 2022, according to cllct.
