Six candid portraits show people smoking, talking, embracing, and resting in intimate indoor settings.

Installations

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1979–1996

Medium
Slide installation with 690 35mm color slides, sound, 45 min. looped
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Accession number
92.127
Acquired
1992
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest, the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Photography Committee
Reproduction credit
© Nan Goldin
Edition
1/10
Department
collection

About this work

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979–1996. Slide installation with 690 35mm color slides, sound, 45 min. looped, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest, the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Photography Committee 92.127. © Nan Goldin

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