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” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism. A hybrid of photography, film, and installation art, the work projects hundreds of goldin’s photographs in a unique sequence, accompanied by a specified soundtrack.
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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