"Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life."
"I often fear that men and women are irrevocably strangers to each other, irreconcilably unsuited, almost as if they were from different planets. But there is an intense need for coupling in spite of it all. Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together. It’s a biochemical reaction, it"
"Ballad reveals Goldin’s personal odyssey, as well as a more universal understanding of the different languages men and women speak, and the struggle between autonomy and dependence. ...... Nan Goldin’s story of urban life on the fringe was the swan song of an era that reached its peak in the early e"
"Sex itself is only one aspect of sexual dependency. Pleasure becomes the motivation, but the real satisfaction is romantic. Bed becomes a forum in which struggles in a relationship are defused or intensified. Sex isn't about performance: it's about a certain kind of communication founded on trust an"