“the ballad of sexual dependency” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism. The ballad of sexual dependency (1986) The image on the cover is nan and brian in bed (1983) The ballad of sexual dependency is a 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986 by photographer nan goldin [1][2] consisting of over 700 images, [3] it is an autobiographical document of a portion of new york city's no wave music and. The ballad of sexual dependency currently materializes a stubborn if unerring cliché
Would that every major generational tragedy had a memoirist like nan goldin. The ballad of sexual dependency is not only a look into goldin’s refuge, but her return from it—offering us, the contemporary viewer, not the other from another time, but a reflection The family returns, the promise of death The ballad of sexual dependency runs at moma through february, 2017.
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