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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
Nancy Goldin
Nancy Nan Goldin
Photographed
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Maggie

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