Titled after a song in bertolt brecht and kurt. First 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 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. 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” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism. 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.
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