Nan Goldin – The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Nan Goldin – The Ballad of Sexual DependencyFirst 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 her "tribe". These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s. Twenty five years later, Goldin's lush

its sporting glories and its industrial exploits

JEB made photographs of lesbians from different ages and backgrounds in their everyday lives—working

"It all started with the objects

commissioned by ‘Vibe’ magazine in 1993 and 1996

the resulting project is a meditation on the rich

MACK (Third printing)

you wonder: Will my outside ever meet my inside

progress and identity within middle-class American society

and the power of art to reflect and shape who we are

all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace

who comb the city sludge for Roman and Saxon treasure

The book is published alongside the music composition ‘The Living Mountain’ written by Thomas Larcher as composer-in-residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam