\u201cThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read. The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.\u201d \u2014Nan Goldin<\/p>\n
“Titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill\u2019s The Threepenny Opera<\/em>, Goldin\u2019s Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists\u2014including the artist herself\u2014are captured in intimate moments of love and loss. They experience ecstasy and pain through sex and drug use; they revel at dance clubs and bond with their children at home; and they suffer from domestic violence and the ravages of AIDS.” \u2014MoMA website<\/p>\n Originally devised as a slideshow to share with friends\u2014set to music by Velvet Underground, Nina Simone, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and Petula Clark among others\u2014Goldin’s project “portrayed her friends\u2014many of them part of the hard-drugs subculture on New York’s Lower East Side\u2014as they partied, got high, fought and had sex.” (Guardian<\/em>) It was first publicly shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1985 and was published as a photobook the following year. In 2014, the Guardian<\/em>‘s Sean O’Hagan said it “remains a benchmark for all other work in a similar confessional vein,” and the Telegraph<\/em>‘s Lucy Davies said it “would come to influence a generation of fledgling photographers, who fell into her truth-telling wake.”<\/p>\n First printing, Aperture, 1986. 144pp. 4to. Fine in blue cloth with unclipped dust jacket, in protective brodart. (0-89381-236-6) [YA3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read. The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.\u201d \u2014Nan Goldin “Titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill\u2019s The Threepenny Opera, Goldin\u2019s Ballad is itself a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81439,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7,96,81,83],"product_tag":[1110,798,852],"class_list":["post-81438","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-arts-culture","product_cat-contemporary-photography","product_cat-photography","product_cat-photography-rare-used-op","product_tag-first-edition","product_tag-no-wave","product_tag-self-portraits","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/81438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=81438"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=81438"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=81438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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