"The Ballad of Sexual Dependency"
Nan Goldin is the artist behind this photograph. She was 15 years old when she was first introduced to a camera. Her first show on her own displayed her works through the homosexual community. Later on she moved toward the new punk music scene. But she was especially drawn to the "hard drug subculture." This lead to her famous work, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency."
Her intent behind this photograph was to show drug use, violent relationships, and "autobiographical" moments. The title of this piece was take from a song in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera. The sad truth is, most of her models and friends that she photographed died by the 1990's due to overdose or sexual diseases.
I find these subjects to be interesting and sad. I like this photo, you can see so much fear and anger at the same time in the womans eyes. The bed and the cigar tie everything together. The man's body language basically says "I don't give a shit." You can really read into this photograph, it has a statement to make, and it succeeds at getting the point across.
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