num_pages: 148
description: 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 seething with life. As Goldin “Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life.”
language: English
title: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
titlecomplete: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
genres: Art, New York, Photography, LGBT, Womens, Queer, Art and Photography, Feminism, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 4727
publisher: Aperture