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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'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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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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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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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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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'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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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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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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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 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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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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