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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.

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 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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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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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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The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
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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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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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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'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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I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.
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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 also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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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 also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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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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