MADRID, SPAIN.- The Palace of Velázquez receives an anthological sample of the American photographer Nan Goldin. With her camera, this photographer has created one of the most fascinating diaries of American counterculture. Her private world remained printed in the decade of the 1970s in a handful of instant photographs of drag queens, artists, lovers of all sexes and New York nightlife partygoers. That is to say, the members of that ’strange family’ she embraced with her camera ’as an act of friendship, as a statement of love’. She is Nan Goldin (Washington, 1953), and she has been taking pictures for 30 years, looking through the eye of her camera as a sharpshooter of the underground. She is the Tom Waits of photograph. She loves insurrection and through that lens she would like the viewer to experience her work in the retrospective exhibition entitled ’The Patio of the Devil’ opening next Thursday at the Palace of Velázquez. It is the most extensive sample of her work that has been seen in Europe, and it arrives enriched from the Pompidou in Paris and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.