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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
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One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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