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I never thought heroin was very chic.
Nan Goldin
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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
Nancy Goldin
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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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
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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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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'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 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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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 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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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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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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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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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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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 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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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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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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