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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.
Nan Goldin
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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
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