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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

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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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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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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 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 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've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.
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I never thought heroin was very chic.
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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 have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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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 start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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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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