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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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 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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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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