n 2021, in celebration of the institution's 40th anniversary, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) acquired the works and will display them for the first time this month. But Goldin originally captured the images never actually intending them to were staged as a slideshow set to music for her closest friends, many of whom appeared in the photographs. The series was first publicly exhibited in 1985. Today, the candid and casually provocative nature of Goldin's images are widely held to be “photography as influential as any in the last 20 years”, and marked the beginning of the artist's long and varied career, which has included everything from lensing fashion campaigns for Bottega Veneta to releasing her own photography books.
