The photographs in nan goldin’s the ballad of sexual dependency depict the everyday lives, often in intimate detail, of people in goldin’s immediate community during the late 1970s and early 1980s. “the ballad of sexual dependency” was the seminal photography collection of the eighties, capturing the era’s lawless bohemianism “trixie on the ladder, nyc” (1979) 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. The ballad of sexual dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s
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