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During the 1980s, her intimate and perceptive work helped to cement her reputation as one of the world’s most influential photographers. Goldin is fascinated by drag queens, saying ‘I wanted to pay homage, to show them how beautiful they were’.\r\n\r\nDye destruction print\r\nMuseum no. E.804-1997","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"Goldin uses photography as an autobiographical tool to capture images of her friends and their daily lives within the subcultures of New York. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is comprised of hundreds of images that Goldin has edited and sequenced to produce a slide show of the photographs. 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