© Nan Goldin
On view
Photography
Rise and Monty Kissing, from the series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,
1988
Nan Goldin, born 1953, Washington, DC; active New York, NY
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Goldin’s series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally presented as a slideshow set to music, depicts intimate moments in the lives of the artist’s friends and lovers from the late 1970s into the 1990s. Her raw and messy images of bohemian life in New York explore gender roles, love, identity, drug and alcohol dependency, and alienation. Goldin has described her autobiographical series as “the diary I let people read.” Using the immediacy and the anecdotal qualities of snapshot photography—while breaking from its formulaic poses, required smiles, and celebration of nuclear families—Goldin foregrounds the complexity of relationships and intimacy.
Information
Title
Rise and Monty Kissing, from the series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Dates
1988
Maker
Medium
Silver dye-bleach print
Dimensions
image: 39.5 × 59.8 cm (15 9/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 60.8 cm (20 × 23 15/16 in.)
mat: 61 × 71.1 cm (24 × 28 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Polaroid Foundation
Object Number
x1988-111
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, New York
Signatures
Signed, titled and dated, lower right, verso: Nan Goldin. "Risé & Monty on sofa" / NYC 1988
Inscription
Signed, titled and dated, lower right, verso: Nan Goldin. "Risé & Monty on sofa" / NYC 1988
In graphite, verso upper right: NG.009.2
Culture
Techniques
The artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York], after 1987; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 1988.
Risé and Monty on Sofa, N.Y.C.
