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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.

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'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 remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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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 never thought heroin was very chic.
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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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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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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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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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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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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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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'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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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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