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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 things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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 have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
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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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