“Photography was always a way to walk through fear,” says Nan Goldin in her raspy voice as photos fill the screen. Nuzzled within the textures of the snapshots live friends, lovers, and drifters, all eternally preserved through the eyes of the consecrated artist who rose to prominence in the 80s thanks to her visual chronicling of queer life and culture in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Her 1986 magnum opus, ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependence’ — named after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s ‘The Threepenny Opera’ — became a reference for vulnerable, autobiographical work in photography, reframing the ever-shifting lines between private and public within art.
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