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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
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The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
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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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
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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 always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.
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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
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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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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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