The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Nan Goldin’s slideshow at MoMA

Ryan in the tub, Provincetown, Mass. 1976

Nan and Brian in bed, New York City 1983

 Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is one of the most enduring works in recent photographic history. What began in 1979 as slideshows for her friends turned into hundreds and hundreds of photos, a visual diary that is still being written today, 30 years later, as well as a book, first published by Aperture in 1986 and still being printed. The version of the slideshow acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2004 contains 690 slides and is 43 minutes long. Though ongoing and including photographs taken all over the world, the heart of the Ballad lies in 1980s New York, a time and place where Goldin and her core group of friends were young and looked for all the world as though they owned it.

http://visualarts.slowcentury.com/post/86796415/the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency