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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 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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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 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.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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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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 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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I know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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