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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

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'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.
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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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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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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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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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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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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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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 also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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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 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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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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