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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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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 had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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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 won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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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 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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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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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 read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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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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 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'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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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 have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
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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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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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