The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Goldin, Nan; Heiferman, Marvin; Holborn, Mark; Fletcher, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 0893813397 / ISBN 13: 9780893813390

Published by Aperture, 1989

About this Item

First Paperback Edition. Signed by Nan Goldin and inscribed to the photographer Terrence Miele on the title page on July 14, 2022 at a book release event for the re-release of Rene Ricard's God with Revolver that she read at in NYC at Mast Books.

Seller Inventory # 002444

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893813397
• ISBN 13: 9780893813390
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Goldin, Nan
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A photobook classic, and perhaps the work for which New York photographer Nan Goldin remains best known, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her “tribe.” Her work describes a late 1970s/early 1980s New York now long gone, and a world that is visceral 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.”

About the Author

Nan Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1953. At eighteen, she began photographing her exted family in New York City; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and London. Her work continues to be exhibited worldwide.