Nan Goldin: The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency
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Book Overview
First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0893812366
ISBN13:9780893812362
Release Date:January 1986
Publisher:Aperture
Length:144 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:9.3" x 0.8" x 10.5"
Customer Reviews
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Nan Goldin
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I bought this book for my god daughter who is studying photography at uni. She was over the moon with the book. I was pleased with the cost and speed of delivery of the book.
Powerful - Highly recommend
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
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.
family fun for all!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
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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