GOLDIN~Nan. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.*

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Author: Goldin, Heiferman, Marvin / Mark Holborn & Suzanne Fletcher (ed.), Nan
Publisher: Aperture Foundation New York
Year: 1989
Artist: GOLDIN~Nan
ISBN: 0-89381-339-7

Oblong softcover, first paperback edition,65, 130 foul-color photographs, 233 x 256 x 16 mm, 144 pages. 125 color plates


"Goldin charts the loss of innocence through barrooms and parties on the social periphery of New York´s East Village and through the harrowing worlds of drugs and prostitution. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, and lovers--collectively described by Nan Goldin orld that is visceral, charged, and seething with life.... As Goldin writes: "Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life."

"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, ..."

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