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Why these poignant snapshots from the 1980s still resonate today

Nan Goldin is an American artist and activist who rose to prominence in the 1980s with her diaristic body of work, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” which has been presented as an expansive slideshow, a photo book, and a film. Katherine A. Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, discusses the landmark photo book as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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