The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin, First Edition

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin

First Edition, First Printing, 1986

FINE Condition

This is a first edition, first printing of the critically acclaimed photobook “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” published by Aperture, New York in 1986. Containing 125 exceptional color photographic plates, the book is Nan Goldin's visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers Commenting on Sexual Dependency in “The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century”, Vince Aletti stated, "Perhaps the most influential contemporary photobook since Diane Arbus' 1972 monograph," Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency is "sequenced as a series of linked images that build and interweave like cinematic montages around the themes of family, friendship, love and loss The work's intimacy, immediacy and candor helped push photography into more intensely emotional territory" . Parr and Badger in “The Photobook: A History” added, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, like most of the great photobooks, is an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times".

Measuring approximately 9” x 10”, the book is bound in blue cloth covered boards with a photographically illustrated dust jacket. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. The dust jacket has NOT been price clipped. This is an exceptional copy of a critically acclaimed photobook that is difficult to find in such wonderful condition.

Cited in all three reference books on photobooks: “The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century” by Andrew Roth and “The Photobook: A History”, by Parr and Badger, and “The Open Book” by Andrew Roth.

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