The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Nan Goldin
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Photographs: Nan Goldin

Text: Nan Goldin

Publisher: Aperture Foundation

148 pages

Year: 1986

Price: 200 €

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 26 x 23.5 cm, First edition and first printing, text in English, colors photographs, in a good condition with a few tears and wears on dust jacket.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read. My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back. I want to show exactly what my world looks like, without glamorization, without glorification. This is not a bleak world but one in which there is an awareness of pain, a quality of introspection.