High Art: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

For Nan Goldin “survival was an art,” photography “a sublimation for sex,” and the art world “bullshit. Times Square was real life.” These are just some of the insights gleaned from Laura Poitras’s (Citizenfour, My Country, My Country) latest likely Oscar contender All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a quietly poignant portrait of an almost accidental artist and reluctant activist; one who could never quite compartmentalize the personal and the political – to both the benefit of society and at heavy cost to her own mental health.

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