8. LAURA MATWICHUK ♀
Information acquired: 2025
LAURA MATWICHUK is an academic who published a paper in 2009 entitled Slide show, monograph, cibachrome : Nan Goldin's colour photographs in three forms. LAURA MATWICHUK published this work as part of a team: Matwichuk, Laura. Here is a description of this work: During the 1970s a new generation of artists began to use photography in a personal and experimental manner not seen prior to this decade. This thesis contends that Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979-86) is first among the artworks to characterize the subcultural fantasy and disenchantment of that generation. By employing autobiographic subject matter and diaristic means, The Ballad is an affront to straight black and white practices legitimized as art in previous decades. My analysis elucidates the historical, economic and artistic conditions which activate The Ballad and reveal its integral role in defining photographic practices of this and subsequent periods. In the first chapter, critical texts on photography which parallel the production of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency are examined, as well as those that draw out histo.