First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her tribe. These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s. Twenty-five years later, Goldin's lush color photography and candid style still demand that the viewer encounter ...
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First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her tribe. These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s. Twenty-five years later, Goldin's lush color photography and candid style still demand that the viewer encounter their profound intensity head-on. As she writes: Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound and physical presence, the density and flavor of life. Through an accurate and detailed record of Goldin's life, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency records a personal odyssey as well as a more universal understanding of the different languages men and women speak. The book's influence on photography and other aesthetic realms has continued to grow, making it a classic of contemporary photography. This anniversary edition features all-new image separations produced using state-of-the-art technologies and specially prepared reproduction files, which offer a lush, immersive experience of this touchstone monograph.
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Add this copy of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Aperture Foundation.
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GOLDIN, Nan. Near fine. Color photographic illustrations throughout. 144 pages. Thin oblong 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Aperture Foundation, (1989). First Paperback Edition. A near fine copy. "Ballad of Sexual Dependency is at once a diary and a soap opera, an unerring portrait of a particular East Village bohemia and a sexual taxonomy for the '80's." J. Hoberman, Village Voice.
Add this copy of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to cart. $600.00, very good condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by Aperture.
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First edition of Goldin's masterpiece. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 125 color photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher.
Add this copy of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to cart. $750.00, like new condition, Sold by Lux Mentis, Booksellers rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Aperture.
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Fine in Near Fine DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Hark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher. Nan Goldin's breakthrough first book. Roth 101. Tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, textured paper boards, gilt lettering, black endpages, frontispiece. Oblong 8vo. 144pp. Illus. (color plates).
Add this copy of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to cart. $850.00, like new condition, Sold by b&w books, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Aperture.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine / like new in mylar-covered dustjacket. 144 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes Unspecified. Audience: General/trade. Nan Goldin's powerful first book of self-portraits and gritty images of friends living "la vie Boheme" in Boston, New York and Berlin. A beautiful example of the 1986 Aperture first edition.
Add this copy of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to cart. $3,000.00, good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Aperture.
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First edition. Presentation copy signed by Nan Goldin in purple ink in the year of publication, inscribed "For Cornell [Capa]-who hopefully can deal with reality with no fictionalizing, as i'm sure he can, in the capa name[, ] my pleasure to meet you-Nan Goldin 12-4-86." Cornell Capa was a Hungarian-American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and brother of photographer Robert Capa. He founded the International Center of Photography in 1974, where Goldin exhibited in 1986 in a group show Nov. 18th through December 23rd. 144pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with blind stamped front board, gilt spine lettering. Slight warp to contents, else Fine in a dust jacket, lightly rubbed, small stain to verso. A nice association copy of the photographer's first book, documenting love, sex, drugs, and violence in gritty '80s New York. Goldin has been credited with inventing "heroin chic."
It's funny to see how a photographer like Nan Goldin can take so many good pictures of her surroundings while criticising herself and the rest of the world. If you want to have a book, with powerful sexually graphic pictures of the degrading and decadent people we all are... this is the one. "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" has very high quality photos of the people Nan lives with, friends and anyone melancholicly beautiful she finds.
