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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
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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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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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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 have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
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I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
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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 did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
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