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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.

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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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 did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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 also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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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 have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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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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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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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 love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
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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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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 shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.
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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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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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