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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.

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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