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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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Gena
Fabulous

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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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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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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 don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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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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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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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'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
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That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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