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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

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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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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 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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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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[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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film Performance.
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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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I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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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'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 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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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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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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