THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin: THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY. NYC: Aperture, 1986. First edition. Oblong quarto. A near-fine hardcover book in a near-fine photo-illustrated dust jacket. Mild spotting to verso of the unclipped dust jacket with a trace of a damstain to the verso of the spine heel. An exceptional copy of this extraordinarily influential photography book. 9.25 X 10.25 hardcover book with 144 pages and 125 color photo plates and a color text photo. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, & Suzanne Fletcher. Design by Keith Davis. Nan Goldin's Ballad is an unforgettable document of early 80s bohemian life in New York's East Village. An extraordinary visual diary of Goldin's life and the lives of her friends and lovers from Boston to London to the Lower East Side. With sexuality at the core of her work, her photographs unravel codes of sexual behavior -- codes that are followed, ignored, or transcended. J. Hoberman of The Village Voice called it "a sexual taxonomy for the '80s."
Selected by Andrew Roth et al for inclusion in THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS. SEMINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Writing in The Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti declares The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to be "perhaps the most influential contemporary photo book since Diane Arbus' 1972 monograph....The work's intimacey, immediacy, and candor helped push photography into more intensely emotional territory."
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