Text by Goldin. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. Designed by Keith Davis. Oblong 4to. Original dark blue cloth-backed boards, blue paper to sides, titles gilt to spine and blind to upper board. With the photographic dust jacket. 120 colour photographs in the text. First Edition, First Printing. Parr/Badger II, page 39. Signed and inscribed to photographer Sophie Rivera on verso of title: "For Sophie / much luck w. your work / all the success in 87 and onward / Best to you, Nan Goldin." Light wear, overall fine.
Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere. A 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986, it is titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and indeed, Goldin’s Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists—including the artist herself—are 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. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read,” Goldin wrote. “The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.”
Text by Goldin. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. Designed by Keith Davis. Oblong 4to. Original dark blue cloth-backed boards, blue paper to sides, titles gilt to spine and blind to upper board. With the photographic dust jacket. 120 colour photographs in the text. First Edition, First Printing. Parr/Badger II, page 39. Signed and inscribed to photographer Sophie Rivera on verso of title: "For Sophie / much luck w. your work / all the success in 87 and onward / Best to you, Nan Goldin." Light wear, overall fine.
Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere. A 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986, it is titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and indeed, Goldin’s Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists—including the artist herself—are 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. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read,” Goldin wrote. “The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.”