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Hashem Shakeri: Untitled, from the series The Kahur Does Not Fall Unless the Earth Wills It, Balochistan, Iran, 2018–ongoing
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Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020
Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020

Ballads: Aperture 239, Summer 2020

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Few works have impacted the world of photography like Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Published by Aperture in 1986, Aperture magazine returns to an iconic work with “Ballads,” a special issue featuring an exclusive interview with Goldin as well as a section curated by the artist dedicated to her influences.

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The Ballads issue of Aperture magazine is organized around the themes contained within the original ballad—intimacy, friendship, community, love, sex, trauma, music—while also honoring the urgent role of the artist as a force for cultural and social change.

Few works have impacted the world of photography like Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Published by Aperture in 1986, The Ballad retains an uncommon power with its unflinching portrayal of friends, lovers, and relationships—a dramatic opera of joy and despair. Decades on, influencing new generations of artists. Goldin herself remains a bold, singular force in our culture. Aperture magazine returns to an iconic work with “Ballads,” a special issue featuring an exclusive interview with Goldin as well as a section curated by the artist dedicated to her influences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 136
Number of images: 0
Publication date: 2020-06-09
Measurements: 9.25 x 12 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597114844
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Table of Contents

Front

Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Marion Palfi, Trevor Paglen, Photo / Brut, Working Together

Redux
Brian Wallis on Leonard Freed and the New York police

Day Jobs
Nicole Acheampong on Ming Smith as a beauty model

Viewfinder
Eva Díaz on women’s hands and the labor of editing

Words

The Ballad of Nan Goldin
The legendary photographer reflects on art, addiction, and activism
A Conversation with Darryl Pinckney

The Original Ballad
The making of a groundbreaking photobook
Marvin Heiferman in Conversation with Elle Pérez

Speeding Along the Edge
Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, and the search for a queer utopia
by Evan Moffitt

The Evocative Years
Libuše Jarcovjáková’s vivid chronicle of Prague’s subcultures
by Alistair O’Neill

A Fold in Time
David Wojnarowicz and the radical archives of the Fales Library
by Olivia Laing

Out of Sheer Rage
How can art and film become forms of protest?
by Lauren O’Neill-Butler

A World Without Men
The Japanese photographers who dared to be “girly”
by Moeko Fujii

Film Studies
Nan Goldin’s imprint on cinema and television
by Rebecca Bengal

Surface Tension
In fashion images, a quest for the truth
by Lou Stoppard

Pictures

Feast for My Eyes 
A pantheon of influences by Nan Goldin 

Pablo Bartholomew 
Introduction by Skye Arundhati Thomas

Sunny Suits
Introduction by Jesse Dorris 

Daragh Soden 
Introduction by Colin Barrett 

Liz Johnson Artur
Introduction by Kareem Reid

Abdul Kircher 
Introduction by Lovia Gyarkye

Clifford Prince King 
Introduction by Marjon Carlos 

223 
Introduction by Xuan Juliana Wang

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Object Lessons
David Wojnarowicz’s One Day This Kid, 1990

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