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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency | 
 enlarge | Creator: Nan Goldin
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0893813397
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.28
EAN: 9780893813390
ASIN: 0893813397
Publication Date: December 7, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: No marks. US softcover. Ships today from Cape Cod bookstore, founded 1991.
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Product 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."
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 Powerful - Highly recommend August 29, 2008
Barry A. Fisher
Nan Golden achieves in this book a thing that is very difficult for most photographers to do well. She makes pictures of great power because they are connected to deep personal experiences, good moments and bad. The bridge of the gap between subject and photographer in herself helps bridge the gap between photograph and viewer.
Good Shtuff.l
amazing February 3, 2006
Holly (Boston)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nan Goldin captures what it's like to be human in a way that no one else can. Her friends---her family----feel pain and introspection and I felt lonely looking through the book but the rare moments of connection in a world where so many people are alone with their drug addiction, disease, unhappiness, are all the more moving.
Wow February 2, 2005
Ceda Xiong (Chicago)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
It's really sad how Nan Goldin hasn't gottten a single intelligible review for her seminial work, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency." Her incredibly self-brutalizing protrayl of her life, friends, lovers, are just the sort of photographs we take when we want memories to cut. Most of the photographs are candid, fleshy, and almost dirtied with color. People copulate, hurt, masturbate, alienate each other with the sort of urbane nonchalance that people confused in their own lives inflict on others. In one particular self-portrait, Nan Goldin records her battered face directly after being battered by her lover, her bloodied eye matching her pasty lipstick. That one photograph can rip you to shreds if you let it. Originally, Nan Goldin showed "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" in a slideshow format, which probably has a different feel than the book does. While some of the photos in the book were a little weak in the grain, most of the photos are beautifully reproduced.
 Not of interest to me. A little distressing. January 28, 1999
5 out of 69 found this review helpful
I'm glad I didn't buy this book, now that I've seen it. Although the reproduction quality of the photographs is very good, the photographs themselves aren't interesting to me and are even a bit distressing.I haven't seen the film(s) or exhibitions about Nan's work though. There is some information about her work on the web - take a look at Yahoo.
family fun for all! June 26, 1998
8 out of 26 found this review helpful
this is one of the best collections of color photography i have seen. nan and her friends are beautiful and scary and strong and fun and sad. i have seen the slide show and bought the book when it was reprinted. go out and buy it! END
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