Private ไCollection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1996)

"The sequence of self-portraits is a sequel and necessary partner to the earlier Ballad and it rearticulates Goldin's project: to make work that connects with one's life, to replace the abstraction and distance of the document with an empathetic and frank confrontation of personal experience and emoti🦩ons. Thus the tradition of the document—loaded since inception with moral intention but also with distanced stance—is different when the photographer is closely enmeshed with her subject."

(Elizabeth Sussman, "In/Of Her Time: Nan Goldin's Photographs," Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror, New York 1996, p. 37)