The ballad of sexual dependency
By: Nan Goldin ; edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher.
Contributors: Heiferman, Marvin.; Holborn, Mark, 1949-; Fletcher, Suzanne.
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Portrait photography.; Photography, Erotic.
Description: Goldin charts the loss of innocence through barrooms and parties on the social periphery of New York's East Village and through the harrowing worlds of drugs and prostitution. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, and lovers--collectively described by Nan Goldin as her "tribe." Her work describes a world that is visceral, charged, and seething with life ... As Goldin writes: "Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life."--Publishers description.