{"product_id":"love-songs-photography-and-intimacy-9781636811178","title":"Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow photographers from Nan Goldin to Leigh Ledare have portrayed intimacy and eros between themselves and their subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 2023 holiday gift guide pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Songs\u003c\/i\u003e brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 by established and emerging contemporary photographers that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their complex and contradictory ways. Among the major series reproduced here are Nan Goldin's seminal 1986 photobook \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency\u003c\/i\u003e; Nobuyoshi Araki's \u003ci\u003eSentimental Journey\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) and \u003ci\u003eWinter Journey\u003c\/i\u003e (1989-90), which present the beginning and end of the relationship with his wife Yoko, from their honeymoon to her death; RongRong\u0026amp;inri's tender and poetical Polaroid series \u003ci\u003ePersonal Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (2000); and Leigh Ledare's \u003ci\u003eDouble Bind\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), a complex account of a love triangle between himself, his ex-wife and her new husband. These and the other series in \u003ci\u003eLove Songs\u003c\/i\u003e together make a portrait of love in all its risk, complexity, sensuality and tenderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhotographers include\u003c\/b\u003e: Nobuyoshi Araki, Motoyuki Daifu, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Ren? Groebli, Herv? Guibert, Sheree Hovsepian, Clifford Prince King, Leigh Ledare, Lin Zhipeng, Sally Mann, RongRong\u0026amp;inri, Collier Schorr, Hideka Tonomura and Karla Hiraldo Voleau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641581932818,"sku":"9781636811178","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68b8646e-9312-4ab8-a689-7063a41393f1.jpg?v=1733025062","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-songs-photography-and-intimacy-9781636811178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}