The documentary of Nan Goldin and Daido Moriyama showed them both to try to use photography to capture the world around them. I found it interesting the similarity of their interest with the huge difference in their background, approach, and style.
Nan Goldin’s intense absorption into the world that she photographed made her images seem all the more powerful after seeing the documentary. Hearing her descriptions of living at night with her transvestite friends and their trips to their mafia owned bar and involvement in drugs and then her spiral into her heroine addiction. Her story seemed greatly intensified the content of her images, putting these provocative images into context adding such a human dimension to them helping me to see, I think, what she was trying to capture.
Moriyama did not immerse himself in the world like Nan Goldin did, he more took his simple camera and traveled into the depths of the city trying to capture the emotion he felt. At first I though his approach seemed rather haphazard, but it seemed to be much more a personal documentation of the world he was trying to explore and learn more about. Also his past was so vastly different, he wanted to be sailor and was not able to and kind of fell into photography. This differs from Nan Goldin and so he seemed much more like an outsider looking into the dark gritty world that he recorded walking down the dark streets.
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