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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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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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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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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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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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 knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.
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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 have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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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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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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 never thought heroin was very chic.
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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