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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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 used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my 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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film Performance.
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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
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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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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 also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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