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I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
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Washington
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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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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 never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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 know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.
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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look that women have to be so skinny to look good that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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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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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I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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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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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