Nan Goldin The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

What Robert Frank’s The Americans was to the 1950s, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is to the 1980s. . . . Goldin . . . has created an artistic masterwork that tells us not only about the attitudes of her generation, but also about the times in which we live. ANDY GRUNDBERG, The New York TimesAs [Goldin] examines the bodies and body language of her subjects, you can sense her perplexed fascination with the Great Divide of gender and her yearning, as she writes, ‘to figure out what makes coupling so difficult.’ It’s a question photographers alone can’t answer, of course. But these photographs, like few before them, make you grapple with the sad and compelling weight of the question. ERIC LEVIN, People Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a beggar’s opera of recent times. Here were real thieves and unexpected heroes, and a sense that some things in life might still be worth a brawl. LISA LIEBMANN, Artforum Ballad of Sexual Dependency is at once a diary and a soap opera, an unerring portrait of a particular East Village bohemia and a sexual taxonomy for the ’80’s. J. HOBERMAN, Village VoiceBiographie de l'auteurNan Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of eighteen she began to photograph her extended family in New York, Boston, Provincetown, London, and Berlin. She currently lives in Paris.