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. $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.
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.