The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986). The image on the cover is "Nan and Brian in Bed" (1983). Ballad of Sexual Dependency.jpg
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986). The image on the cover is "Nan and Brian in Bed" (1983).

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986 by photographer Nan Goldin. [1] [2] Consisting of over 700 images, [3] it is an autobiographical document of a portion of New York City's No wave music and art scene, the post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the heroin subculture of the Bowery neighborhood, and Goldin's personal family and love life. [4]

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Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said it "remains a benchmark for all other work in a similar confessional vein." [5] Lucy Davies, writing in The Telegraph in 2014, said it "would come to influence a generation of fledgling photographers, who fell into her truth-telling wake. She was credited by Bill Clinton with inventing heroin chic". [1]

Details

The title The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was adapted from a song in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera . [3]

It was originally devised as a slideshow set to the music of Velvet Underground, James Brown, Nina Simone, Charles Aznavour, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Petula Clark among others, to entertain Goldin's friends. [5] [2] It "portrayed her friends – many of them part of the hard-drugs subculture on New York's Lower East Side – as they partied, got high, fought and had sex. It was first publicly shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1985 and was published as a photobook the following year." [5]

The snapshot aesthetic book was first published with help from Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher in 1986. [6]

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is held in the following permanent collection:

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  2. 1 2 Bracewell, Michael (14 November 1999). "Landmarks in the Ascent of Nan". The Independent . Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Johnson, Ken (14 July 2016). "Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2024. Lock-green.svg
  4. ↑ Goldin, Nan (2012). Marvin Heiferman; Mark Holborn; Suzanne Fletcher (eds.). The ballad of sexual dependency (2012 reissue ed.). New York, N.Y.: Aperture Foundation. ISBN   978-1-59711-208-6.
  5. 1 2 3 4 O'Hagan, Sean (20 July 2010). "Nan Goldin: 'I wanted to get high from a really early age'". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency". Fraenkel Gallery. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  7. ↑ "NAN GOLDIN" (PDF). Fraenkel Gallery. 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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