Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.
Interior spread from Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” featuring full-color documentary photographs.
Second interior spread showcasing Nan Goldin’s candid images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.”
Detail shot of the printing and paper quality of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Aperture edition.
Close-up of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Complete set overview of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” including cover and interior pages.
Close-up 2 of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.
Interior spread from Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” featuring full-color documentary photographs.
Second interior spread showcasing Nan Goldin’s candid images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.”
Detail shot of the printing and paper quality of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Aperture edition.
Close-up of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Complete set overview of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” including cover and interior pages.
Close-up 2 of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.
Interior spread from Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” featuring full-color documentary photographs.
Second interior spread showcasing Nan Goldin’s candid images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.”
Detail shot of the printing and paper quality of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Aperture edition.
Close-up of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Complete set overview of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” including cover and interior pages.
Close-up 2 of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.
Interior spread from Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” featuring full-color documentary photographs.
Second interior spread showcasing Nan Goldin’s candid images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.”
Detail shot of the printing and paper quality of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Aperture edition.
Close-up of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Complete set overview of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” including cover and interior pages.
Close-up 2 of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.
Interior spread from Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” featuring full-color documentary photographs.
Second interior spread showcasing Nan Goldin’s candid images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.”
Detail shot of the printing and paper quality of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Aperture edition.
Close-up of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.
Complete set overview of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” including cover and interior pages.
Close-up 2 of the book’s condition, highlighting the brand-new hardcover edition of Nan Goldin’s classic photobook.

THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY

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Published by: Aperture, New York, 2021
Hardcover, 160 pages
26 × 23.5 cm
Language: English
Condition: Brand New. Completely clean, tight, and pristine; no visible wear.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, first published in 1986, stands as Nan Goldin’s groundbreaking visual diary an intimate, unfiltered record of the search for love, belonging, and vulnerability within her closest circle. Goldin documents the intensity of relationships, desire, addiction, tenderness, and the fragile architecture of human connection, photographing what she described as her “tribe.”

These images capture a visceral and electric way of living, a world charged with raw appetite and emotional candor. The book quickly became an emblem of a generation whose emotional and cultural peak unfolded in the early 1980s. Decades later, Goldin’s saturated color palette and candid approach remain profoundly influential, demanding that viewers confront the full emotional impact of each photograph.

As Goldin writes: “Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound and physical presence, the density and flavor of life.”
This monograph records both an intensely personal odyssey and a universal narrative of the different languages spoken between men and women.

This anniversary edition features new image separations produced with state of the art technology, offering the most immersive presentation to date of this essential and era defining photobook.

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We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.

Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.

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We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.

Front cover of Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Aperture hardcover edition, photographed for intermission books.

THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY

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