Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Originally 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. This influential collection of photographs is titled after a song from The Threepenny Opera (1928) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Moving to New York in 1978, Goldin began documenting members of her chosen family there and in London, Berlin, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. First presented as an evolving multimedia presentation of slides accompanied by an eclectic soundtrack, its sequences of lushly colored photographs confront the viewer with candid moments of revelry and friendship, intimacy and loss. This edition includes a new afterword written by Goldin in 2021 in addition to the original foreword.
Publisher: Aperture Foundation, New York
Publication date: 2021 reprint of 1986 edition
Contributor: Nan Goldin
Designer: Keith Davis
Format: Cloth hardcover in dust jacket
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (26.1 × 23.8 cm)
Pages: 148
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-59711-208-6
