Nan Goldin – The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Documentary You look nice

You look nice

English / French / Italian

200 colour illustrations

allowing her body to repeatedly give way to gravity and create a visual space to contemplate time

Nan Goldin – The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Documentary You look niceFirst 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