Goldin, The ballad of sexual dependency
Goldin, The ballad of sexual dependency
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Goldin, Nan. The ballad of sexual dependency. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. New York,, Aperture (1989). Quer-Gr.-8° (23 x 25,5 cm.).. 144 p. with 120 coloured plates. Colour illustrated Paperback. Auer 667. Koetzle 173 f. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 252 f. Roth, The Open Book 332 f. Parr/Badger II, 39. – First paperback edition. The first hardcover edition appeared 1986. – Inscribed and signed by N. Goldin „For Johan x amsterdam. June 7. 97 Nan Goldin″. – „Nan Goldin might be considered a female equivalent of Larry Clark, photography’s resident bohemian. Her book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is comparable with Clark’s notorious Teenage Lust (19823), in that it is diaristic and hedonistic – a soap opera of sexual mores mediated through the colour-snapshot aesthetic developed by William Eggleston. But whereas Clark gleefully courts the sleazy and blatantly depicts the sexual act, Goldinm is concerned neither with the sleazy for its own sake nor primarily with sex. Her brief is more complex, and a good deal more ambitious than Clark’s. She examines the limitations of sanctioned gender roles and the conflicting, often violent nature of sexual relationships amongst her friends and lovers. Her view is profoundly pessimistic, yet she also admits the illogical pull of the biological imperative in her introduction to the book: „I often fear that men and women are irrevocably strangers to each other, irreconcilably unsuited, almost as if they were from different planets. But there is an intense need for coupling in spite of it all. Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together“.“ (Martin Parr). – Very good copy.
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