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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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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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