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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
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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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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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 thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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 also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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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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.
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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 have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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